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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 314

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Small Silver Medal, 38mm. (Captn. Willm. Morrow. Barque. "British Monarch" For Rescuing 22 Of Crew Of S.S. "St. Pauli." March 2. 1882.), good very fine, without its silver riband buckle Estimate £ 80-100 ´A Silver Medal and a vote of thanks to Captain William Morrow, of the barque British Monarch, for having, on the 2nd March last, rescued twenty-two of the crew of the German steamer St. Pauli, which vessel was abandoned in the English Channel in a sinking condition, the crew escaping to the barque in their own boat. Two of the steamer´s crew got adrift in their boat while alongside the barque, one of whom was seriously injured, and it was not till some hours afterwards that they were rescued by a boat from the British Monarch.´ (43rd Annual Report of the Committee of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society 1882 refers)

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