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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 184

Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life From Shipwreck Medal, silver, type 1 1824-62, obverse: head of King George IV facing left (Lieut. Sydenham Wylde. R.N. Voted 21 March 1838), engraved in upright serif capitals, letter ´E´ of surname officially corrected, light pitting to obverse, very fine, with integral band, eyelet suspension and riband ring Estimate £ 500-600 Sydenham Wylde, Lieutenant, R.N., H.M. Coastguard, Caister, citation reads, ´25 February 1838: With two Coastguardmen Wylde saved the crew of the Shields schooner Lapwing when she went aground in a storm at Caister, Norfolk. He got a rope on board the schooner, enabling a hawser to be hauled ashore, by which the Master and eight men were saved at one time. Lieutenant Wylde narrowly escaped drowning.´ Lieutenant Sydenham Wylde, R.N., joined the Royal Navy as Volunteer 1st Class, 1816; served in H.M.S. Minden at Algiers, and in H.M.S. Eden in operations against pirates in the Persian Gulf; as Mate of H.M.S. Boadicea he commanded her cutter in the attack on Melloone during the Burmese War and was promoted Lieutenant for his services in December 1826; served with the Coastguard from 1836, until his death in 1845. Provenance: J.B. Hayward Collection, November 1995

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