Orders, Decorations and Medals

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 2nd type oval medal with ‘Liver Bird’ suspension, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘James Clatworthy, Seaman, Schooner “Kitty Glidden”, 26 Nov. 1872’, edge additionally inscribed, ‘For courage & humanity in going in a boat to rescue crew of the Sailors Home in a gale on 26 of Nov. 1872’ - minor corrections to naming, with silver top bar, edge bruise, good very fine £600-700

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. 129.

‘Silver Medal to James Clatworthy, ordinary seaman, schooner Kitty Glidden, and others, for their skill, courage and humanity in having rescued in four trips with a small boat in a heavy sea, the crew of the Sailor’s Home, twenty-two in number, in a gale of wind, on the 26th November 1872’ (Extract from Society’s records).