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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 750

Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck Medal, gold, Type 1 1824-1862, obverse: head of King George IV facing left, (Lieut. James Lindsay R.N. 7 Feby 1827), upper part of the applied rim re-affixed, good very fine, with integral gold band, eyelet suspension ring and riband ring Estimate £ 1,400-1,800 Lieutenant James Lindsay, R.N., served in H.M. Coastguard, Fort George, his citation for a gold award is listed jointly with the two silver awards for William Cork, Boatman, H.M. Coastguard, Fort George and Alexander Gray, Boatman, H.M. Coastguard, Fort George and reads, ´´2 January 1827: The Inverness sloop Lively went on shore during severe weather near Fort George, Nairn, with the Master, two seamen and one female passenger on board. Using Lively´´s boat, which had been driven ashore, Lieutenant Lindsay and his two men went alongside. Soon the boat was swamped and went to pieces, and they were forced to board the sloop where they remained for two hours. With the sea running over the vessel, Lieutenant Lindsay had continually to hold on to the female passenger to prevent her being swept overside. The bottom of the sloop was out by this time and, half an hour after they were finally taken off by the Coastguard boat, she broke up.´´ Provenance: Sotheby 1971

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