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Of the fifteen ships which had come to Murmansk in February, one had been sunk and four damaged. On 17th May, in company with
three other ships we left the Kola Inlet and set out for the White Sea. We arrived in Economia on the North Dvina River where we
stayed until 18th July when we moved to Molotovsk (Severodvinsk) and finally on 26th November, with eight other ships, some
damaged, we set out for home. Since it was now dark for almost twenty four hours each day and we could only do seven knots
maximum speed we went north to the edge of the ice. Knowing that a Russian bound convoy was coming up to the south of us we
expected the Germans to attack it and leave us alone. This in fact happened and we eventually arrived in London on 14th December
1943, in time to be home for Christmas.”
After returning from North Russia the Dover Hill was taken over by the Ministry of War Transport and was sunk at Arromanches on 9
June 1944 along with other ships to form an artificial port for the invasion of Normandy.
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A Second World War M.B.E. and Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea group of seven awarded to Second Engineer
Officer Norman Makepeace, Merchant Navy, for services aboard the S.S. Toorak, 16 January 1942
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, M.B.E. (Civil) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; BRITISH WAR MEDAL 1914
-20 (Norman Makepeace); 1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; ITALY STAR; WAR MEDAL 1939-45; LLOYD’S WAR MEDAL FOR BRAVERY AT SEA
(Second Engineer Officer Norman Makepeace, S.S. “Toorak”, 16th January 1942) mounted for wear, good very fine and
better (7) £1600-1800
M.B.E. London Gazette 27 April 1943.
Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea Lloyd’s List & Shipping Gazette 3 February 1944. ‘Norman Makepeace, Second Engineer Officer,
Toorak’.
‘When the ship was torpedoed the wireless was put out of action and the boiler room fires were extinguished. Temporary repairs were
effected and the ship proceeded at reduced speed. Second Engineer Makepeace remained alone in the engine-room and kept the
engines running, and his courage and devotion to duty greatly contributed to the vessel’s safe arrival in port’.
The S.S. Toorak, 8,627 tons, a British tanker of the Standard Transportation Company, was torpedoed by the U.86 in the North Atlantic
on 16 January 1942. Despite serious damage she managed to reach the safety of a port and survived the war. For their services in
preserving their ship, Captain Frederick Henry Graham was awarded the O.B.E., and Second Engineer Makepeace, the M.B.E. and
Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery.
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CORPORATION OF GLASGOW BRAVERY MEDAL, 1st type, silver (William Hay) lacking brooch bar, substitute ribbon, some edge
bruising, good very fine £120-160
William Hay of 186 Stobcross Street, Glasgow, was awarded the Glasgow Bravery Medal on 11 March 1930. He rescued a man from
drowning in the River Clyde at Queen’s Dock on 6 February 1930.
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CORPORATION OF GLASGOW BRAVERY MEDAL, 2nd type, silver, with 2nd Award
Bar (?) (Hugh Kennedy) with hallmarks for Glasgow 1935, lacking
brooch bar, some edge bruising, very fine £100-140
Hugh H. Kennedy, of 11 Tower Street, Glasgow. Awarded the Glasgow Bravery
Medal on 9 March 1937. ‘... who rescued a boy from drowning in the Monkland
Canal at Castle Street on 14th September last (1936)’.
Again awarded on 14 December 1937. ‘... who (with Peter Murphy and James
Boyle) ... made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to rescue a child from drowning
in the Forth and Clyde Canal near Castle Street on 15th June last.
It is possible that Kennedy was awarded a second medal rather than a clasp for
his second act of bravery. The above slip-bar is not confirmed as the ‘2nd Award
Clasp’ for the medal. With some copied research.
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