LIFE SAVING AWARDS 1052


LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY,MARINEMEDAL, 3rd type, silver (To John Albert Jones for rescuing a man from the River Mersey, 1/8/05) with silver buckle on ribbon, in worn Oldfield, Liverpool case of issue; with a miniature dress medal with buckle, nearly extremely fine (2)


£150-200 1053


LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY, MARINE MEDAL, 3rd type, silver (To James Scully, for gallant service, 17/8/33) in case of issue, medal lacking suspension, minor edge bruising; BOARD OF TRADE, PROOF OF SERVICE AT AWRECK, bronze token, unnamed, good very fine (2)


£100-140 1054 1055


LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY, MARINE MEDAL, 3rd type, bronze (To Robert Garner for meritorious service, 27-5 -26) with bronze brooch bar, extremely fine


£100-140


W. A. Miller, Chief Officer of the Sobraon for saving life from the Terzo, 9 November 1896. LLOYD’S MEDAL FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA, 2nd small type, silver (W. A. Miller, “Terzo” 9 Nov. 1896) in case of issue, nearly


extremely fine 1056 £260-300


LLOYD’SMEDAL FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA, 2nd small type bronze, unnamed specimen, fitted with a replacement silver swivel ring suspension, good very fine


£80-100 1057 HUNDRED OF SALFORD HUMANE SOCIETY, 2nd type, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘Robt. Damson August 1899’, very fine £70-90 1058


CORPORATION OF GLASGOW BRAVERY MEDAL, 2nd type, silver, inscribed, ‘William Docherty 1944’, no brooch bar, edge bruising, some contact marks, nearly very fine


£60-80


Awarded to William Docherty, of 32 Dalmally Street, Glasgow, for rescuing a boy from drowning in the Forth and Clyde Canal on 20 March 1944. With copied Glasgow Corporation minutes.


1059 S.S. DRUMMOND CASTLE MEDAL 1896, silver, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine £200-260


The Castle Mail Packets Company liner S.S. Drummond Castle, homeward bound from Natal and Cape Town, struck a reef off Ushant in a fog on the night of 16 June, 1896. Of the 143 passengers and 104 officers and crew, only three escaped. Silver medals were struck with the approval of Queen Victoria for award to the Breton fishermen and other inhabitants of Brest, Ushant, and Molene who helped in rescuing the survivors, and in the recovery and burial of those lost.


1060 1061


R.S.P.C.A. LIFE SAVINGMEDAL, silver (P.C. 132 Stephen Bradbury) with ‘For Humanity’ brooch bar, but without ribbon, in Spink, London case, extremely fine


£140-180


A Norwegian Medal for Heroic Deeds group of four awarded to Captain J. Y. Duncan, Mercantile Marine


BRITISHWAR AND MERCANTILE MARINEWAR MEDALS (James Y. Duncan) both in named card boxes of issue; CORONATION 1953, in card box of issue; Norway, Kingdom, MEDAL FOR HEROIC DEEDS (J. J. [sic] Duncan 19-11 -1918) in H. R. Brunn, Christiania, case of issue, about extremely fine (4)


£400-500


James Young Duncan was born in 1890, and after serving as an apprentice Pilot on the Tyne passed exam for his 2nd Class Ticket on 31 August 1914. He served as a Tyne Pilot throughout the Great War, and was awarded the Norwegian Medal for Heroic Deeds on 19 November 1918, on which date he was involved in bringing the cargo ship the S.S. Fifetown from the North Sea into Tyne Dock. He passed exam for his 1st Class Ticket on 14 April 1919, and subsequently served as Pilot of the Armstrong Yard, Armstrong and Walker Shipyards, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.


Sold with the named Bestowal Certificate for the Coronation Medal; two portrait photographs; the recipient’s Ledger, detailing all his Piloting work, covering the period 5 September 1914 - 24 December 1929; and various other photographs and letters.


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