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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 189

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Medal, silver, type 2 1862-1903, obverse: head of Queen Victoria with chaple of oak leaves facing left (Mr. Thomas Bate. Voted 7th April. 1881.), engraved in mixed styles, suspension claw slack, light contact marks, therefore very fine, with uniface ´dolphin´ suspension Estimate £ 450-550 Thomas Bate, Coxswain, Bude Lifeboat, citation reads, ´31 December 1880: The Bude ketch Stucley, on passage from Mumbles to Bude with coal, was wrecked in squally weather on Bude breakwater, Cornwall. Mr. Bate and his crew saved her crew of three men by means of lifelines and a hawser.´ Provenance: J.B. Hayward Collection, November 1995

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