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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 193

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Medal, silver, type 2 1862-1903, obverse: head of Queen Victoria with chaple of oak leaves facing left (Mr. William Hooke. Voted 10th Decr. 1896.), engraved in mixed styles, edge bruise, very fine, with uniface ´dolphin´ suspension Estimate £ 400-500 William Hooke, Coxswain, Blakeney Lifeboat, citation reads, ´Awarded on Mr. Hooke´s retirement from the post of Coxswain during which period services were given to the barque Amana (1865), a Pilot coble (1866). the sloop Emma (1867), the schooner Gypsy (1869), the brigs John and Mary and Ravensworth (1870) and H.M.S. Beaver (1885).´ Despite the above statement, there was no H.M.S. Beaver in commission in the Royal Navy in 1885; this is probably a simple error in transcription. Provenance: J.B. Hayward Collection, November 1995

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