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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 194

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Medal, silver, type 2 1862-1903, obverse: head of Queen Victoria with chaple of oak leaves facing left (Mr. H. Trewhella Voted 11th March 1897.), engraved in mixed styles, minor official correction to ´h´ of surname, extremely fine, with uniface ´dolphin´ suspension, in damaged fitted case of issue Estimate £ 500-600 H. Trewhella, Coxswain, Penzance Lifeboat, citation reads, On his retirement ´in acknowledgement of his long and gallant services in saving life from shipwreck´. For the last six years, Mr. Trewhella served in the post of Coxswain, during which period services were given to the schooner Joseph Nicholson (1891), the schooner Express (1892), a man who fell from the quay (1892) and the barque Lady Gladys (4th March 1897). The wooden barque Lady Gladys, 1,384 tons, was built by Putnam at Maitland, Nova Scotia, in 1874; by 1897 she was in Norwegian ownership and registered at Tönsberg (Norway). Provenance: J.B. Hayward Collection, November 1995

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