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№ 238 x

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5 July 2011

Hammer Price:
£240

Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, bronze (Joseph Moffat, Wreck of the Schooner "Phebe Lewis" of Newport on the 1st April 1881) edge bruising, good very fine £250-300

For the rescue of the crew of the schooner Phebe Lewis of Newport on 1 April 1881, one silver Board of Trade Humanity Medal and one silver and three bronze Board of Trade Gallantry Medals were awarded.