Royal National Lifeboat Institution, silver, G.IV.R., 1st type (George Macdonald, Voted Nov. 9. 1840) fitted with silver loop and ring suspension, edge bruises and contact marks, therefore nearly very fine £300-350

Lieutenant H. F. Sewell, R.N., and Boatman George Macdonald, H.M. Coastguard, St John’s Point, Voted 9 November 1840.

‘21 September 1840: In a strong gale, thick weather and a heavy sea, the smack Sarah, Swansea to the Clyde, was stranded and sank at St John’s Point, Dundrum Bay, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, with the Master and four men on board. She was seen at daybreak. Lieut. Sewell and Mr Macdonald put off in the punt and rescued the crew from the smack’s cross trees and yard, where they had been for three hours.’