Life Saving Awards 752
Royal National Institute for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, G.IV.R., silver (Lieut. Jas. Pratt. R.N. Voted Dec. 17. 1840) with eyelet and ring suspension, nearly very fine
£600-£800
James Pratt entered the Navy on 13 July 1808, and passed his examination in 1815. He served on board the Britomart 10, Captain Robert Riddell, at the bombardment of Algiers, 27 August 1816. He obtained his commission as Lieutenant on 27 May 1825, and was employed in the Coast Blockade, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion 42, Captain William James Mingaye, from 27 July following until March 1831; and has since been in command of a station in the Coast Guard. In 1840 he received a silver medal from the Shipwreck Institution, and the thanks of the Royal Humane Society, for his exertions in saving the crews of three vessels wrecked on the beach between Brighton and Rottingdean. These were the brig Mary , the schooner Sir John Seale, and the brig Offerton. The crew of the Offerton were saved by the efforts of the Coastguards at Black Rock. In recognition of this the Shipwreck Institution of London presented their gold medal to Captain Marsh and their silver medal to Lieutenants Newnham, Pratt and Prior. The event was recorded in the Minutes of the Brighton Branch as follows: ‘the sea broke most furiously against the High Cliff completely covering the Beach... At this spot Captain Marsh with some of his men were twice lowered by ropes from the top of the Cliff to a slight ridge at imminent peril of their own lives, [and] were enabled to seize hold of the men belonging to the vessel as they were washed out of their boat which was swamped immediately afterwards,’
Pratt’s N.G.S. medal for Algiers is part of the Douglas-Morris Collection at the Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth. 753
Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 3rd type, silver (To Adam Briggs, F.E. Condr. No. 24, for intrepidity in rescuing Life, November 17, 1862. Case 7604.) fitted with straight bar swivelling suspension, very fine
£360-£400
Conductor (24) Adam Briggs, Silver Medal: ‘This rescue was for a fire at 4 Dean Street, Finsbury, where several persons were rescued by Briggs and the Finsbury Fire-escape.’ This fire was on 17 November 1862 and was apparently attended by Briggs, with the Finsbury escape, and Conductor Steer, with the Bishopsgate Street escape, their efforts resulting in the rescue of 10 people.’
754
No record of this award traced in the Society’s Minutes or Annual Report. Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire, 3rd type, bronze (J. Reynolds, Fire Escape Conductor. Saving Life,
Shoreditch. 1857.) fitted with later scroll suspension, good very fine £60-£100 755
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Snowdon Davis. 23 September 1885) with Second Award Bar ‘25th. March 1887.’ the reverse of the bar officially numbered ‘23438’, the medal gilded, with the suspension reverse to form an elaborate loop and ring suspension, suspended from the Second Award Bar, lacking riband and integral top riband buckle, gilding rubbed in parts, nearly very fine
£120-£160
Snowdon Davis was awarded his Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal for saving life at Redheugh Bridge on the River Tyne on 23 September 1885 (R.H.S. Case no. 22,919), and his Second Award Bar for saving life at the same location on 25 March 1887 (R.H.S. Case no. 23,438).
756
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (Henry Weston, 14th. May 1890.) with integral top riband buckle, minor edge bruise, good very fine
£100-£140
Henry Weston was awarded his Royal Humane Society Bronze Medal for saving life in Sunderland on 14 May 1890 (R.H.S. Case no. 24,898).
757
Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (William J. Williams, 22nd. Feb. 1898.) with integral top riband buckle, edge bruising, nearly very fine
£120-£160
R.H.S. Case no. 29,339: ‘On 22 February 1898, the coastguard boat was capsized off Wells Point, Norfolk. Four of the five men were drowned, the fifth, named Devlin, held onto the boat, which drifted inshore. Commissioned Boatman William J. Williams, H.M. Coastguard, gallantly swam out and succeeded in bringing him to shore in an unconscious state, where he died two hours after.’
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