Vice-Admiral Sir John Edmund Commerell, KCB, VC, British naval officer Steam shovel 'The Nymph Salmacis'

'The Nymph Salmacis'

30th May 1974

A compound microscope manufactured by Hugh Powell (1799-1883) and Peter Lealand

7 January 1918

remained unresolved

Vice-Admiral Sir John Edmund Commerell, KCB, VC, British naval officer Steam shovel 'The Nymph Salmacis'Vice Admiral Sir John Edmund Commerell, KCB, VC, British naval officer, 1883. Commerell won his Victoria Cross during the Crimean War. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (London, 1876 1883).