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Auction: 4020 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 568

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Medal V.R., silver (M Estimate £ 240-280 Chief Officer Robert Kilpatrick Thompson, H.M. Coastguard, Clogher Head, '25-26 December 1836: At 7pm on Christmas Day, during a heavy gale, the sloop Isabella, Liverpool to Dundalk, was stranded on the north side of Clogher Head, Co. Louth, Ireland and sank soon afterwards. Some local fishermen brought a boat from the harbour, a mile and a half away, using a cart. Manned by Mr. Thompson, three coastguardmen and five fishermen, the boat went off through heavy surf and, despite intense frost, reached the wreck at 3am, where three men had been in the rigging since 8pm. One man had died from cold and fatique, but the Master and another man were rescued.' [Extract taken from Lifeboat Gallantry - RNLI Medals and how they were won, Spink 1998]

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