Order of the Bath Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never
Hired armed cutter King George days later to avoid capture. In 1847 the surviving members of the crews of all the British vessels at the battle qualified for the Naval General Service Medal with the clasp "Basque Roads 1809". Rear-Admiral Robert Stopford sent "King George" back to England with dispatches. On 24 November 1809 "King George" captured a Danish galiot whose name later was established as the "Texel". Then on 14 January 1810 she recaptured the "Drie Gebroeders", J.F. Learman, Master. On 10 March 1811, while under command of Thomas Mercer, Master, she was in company with when they captured the French privateer cutter "Velocifere".