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Auction: 9024 - The Property of a Gentleman Orders, Decorations and Campaign Medals
Lot: 763

Rose Life Saving Medal, the obverse engraved ´James Dal Memento for Gallantry in Saving Crew of Schooner "Rose" of Ipswich. 30th. March 1901.´, the reverse engrave ´Let not the Deep Swallow me up´ within wreath, 39mm, silver, nearly extremely fine, rare Estimate £ 60-80 On the 30th March 1901 the Harwich steam lifeboat, City of Glasgow, received a message from Felixstowe, that a gale was blowing from the south accompanied by heavy sea and that a schooner was aground on the St. Andrew´s Bank and flying signals of distress. The lifeboat left her moorings at 9.10am and founded the stranded schooner Rose, which was bound for Ipswich, laden with granite from Guernsey. Seeing that the ship would inevitably become a wreck, the crew of four were taken into the lifeboat and safely landed at about 11.45am. Privately produced life saving medals were presented to the lifeboat crew. Provenance: Denham Collection, 1971.

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£320