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Auction: 5005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 321

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society Small Silver Medal, 1874-75, 38mm. (Captain Thomas Stephens. S.S. ´Catalonia´, For Having Rescued Crew Of The ´La Vague´. 19.Oct. 1897), extremely fine, with its silver riband buckle Estimate £ 120-140 ´Silver Medal and vote of thanks to Captain Thomas Stephens, Cunard steamer Catalonia, for having, during a heavy gale, rescued the crew, 21 in number, of the French schooner La Vague, which was dismasted in the North Atlantic, on October 19th 1897.´ (59th Annual Report of the Committee of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society 1898 refers)

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