Orders, Decorations and Medals

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, bronze (To James Porter, for Gallant Service, 2/11/34) complete with brooch bar, in case of issue, extremely fine £100-140

Sold with Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society letter providing details of the rescue:

‘Illuminated Address to Captain John Gill, Commanding the Dublin T.S.S. “Lady Leinster”, Silver Medal and Certificate to John Gallimore, Chief Officer, in charge of the lifeboat, and Bronze Medal and Certificate each to the following members of the lifeboat’s crew: A.B.’s James Potter (sic), James Finigan, George Popplewell, George McKane, Michael Purcell and Reginald Davis in recognition of gallant service rendered in rescuing the four occupants of the 76 ft. barge-built yacht “Thursday”, which sprang a leak when five miles off Point Lynas, on 2nd November 1924.

Captain Gill reports that when on the passage from Dublin to Liverpool at 2.57 a.m. on the 2nd November, when about four miles North of Point Lynas, Anglesey, a flare was sighted by the officer of the watch. Working engines as required he approached within hailing distance and found the occupants of the vessel were unable to leave their own boat. The wind at this time was fresh Northerly with a nasty choppy sea, but the launching of the “Lady Leinster’s” No.1 Lifeboat was safely accomplished and under the command of Mr Gallimore successfully took off the four survivors and transferred them to the “Lady Leinster”. At this time the “Thursday” was awash forward and settling rapidly’.