Orders, Decorations and Medals

Royal National Lifeboat Institution, G.V.R., silver (James P. Mainland, Voted 10th March 1916) with biface ‘double dolphin’ suspension, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Life Saving Awards formed by The Late W.H. Fevyer.

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Ref. Spink Exhibition 1985, No. 70.

‘Awarded silver medal and two pounds for putting off in a boat and saving eight of the crew of the steam trawler Jackdaw of Hull which was wrecked at Basta Voe, Island of Yell, Shetlands, in a S.E. gale and a heavy sea on the 6th December 1915’ (Extract from R.N.L.I. Minutes).