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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 526

(x) Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (Willm. Dalling for Jumping Overboard from S.S. "Oregon" in the Mersey to Rescue a Passenger, April 18. 1889.), good very fine

William Dalling was awarded the Marine Medal in silver in the 50th Annual Report of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society:

'A Silver Medal and Vote of Thanks to William Dalling, seaman on board the steamer "Oregon", for having on the 18th April 1889, jumped overboard into the Mersey and rescued a passenger who had fallen from the steamer's forecastle. The tide was running very strong at the time, making the work one both of difficulty and danger, and the two men had drifted half a mile astern of the ship before they were picked up by its boat.'

The River Mersey has the third highest tidal run in Europe with the current reaching ten knots in places, equivalent to 11.5 miles per hour; the average water temperature is 8.9 degrees in April; sold with copied extract from the Society records.


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£130