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Auction: 11007 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 196

Three: Chief Officer Frank Kent, H.M. Coastguard, Sandwich Naval Long Service & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (F. Kent. Qr. Mr. H.M.S. Beagle.); Board of Trade, large Silver medal for lifesaving, 58mm. (Wreck of the Eclipse on the 19th November 1893), in fitted case of issue; Royal National Lifeboat Institution Medal, silver, type 2 1862-1903, obverse: head of Queen Victoria with chaple of oak leaves facing left (Mr. Frank Kent, Voted 14th Dcr. 1898.), engraved in mixed styles, with uniface ´dolphin´ suspension, generally good very fine or better, original certificate mounted on card (lot) Estimate £ 1,200-1,400 Frank Kent, Chief Officer, H.M. Coastguard, Sandwich, citation reads, ´18 November 1893: With four other men, Chief Officer Kent put off in the Coastguard gig in an attempt to help the Ramsgate ketch Eclipse, which had stranded at night in Minnis Bay, off Broadstairs, Kent, in a whole northerly gale and a heavy sea. Unable to reach the ketch because of the conditions, they lost sight of her, and returned to shore. They put off again at daylight, made contact with the casualty and rescued the only man aboard.´ Provenance: J.B. Hayward Collection, November 1995

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