Baltic and Crimea, HMS Hannibal

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Baltic medal, Crimea medal clasp Sebastopol and Turkish medal to William Cushway, born 25 Dec 1833 from Bethnal Green, London.

Enlisted 5th June 1954 for 10 years as an Ordinary Seaman, HMS Waterloo, Commanded (until paying off at Sheerness) by Captain Frederick Herbert Kerr.

Joined HMS Hannibal and invalided in 1856.

HMS Hannibal was originally planned as a 90-gun second rate ship of the line, to be built at Woolwich Dockyard. She was ordered on 14 May 1840, but cancelled and re-ordered. This ship was also named HMS Hannibal and used the new screw propulsion technology. She was a 91-gun second rate, built at Deptford Dockyard by Charles Willcox, Master Shipwright, and launched on 31 January 1854. She served in the Crimean War, commanded by John Charles Dalrymple Hay.

He was a coach builder by trade.

He died in 1897 at the age of 64.