Orders, Decorations and Medals

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 2nd type oval medal with ‘Liver Bird’ suspension, silver, reverse inscribed, ‘George B. Allen, Chief Officer S.S. Zeal for having in two trips with a boat’s crew rescued 12 of crew of barque Kong Harald, Feby. 22nd 1879’, with silver brooch bar, correction to one letter of inscription, minor edge bruising, 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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Ex Edrington Collection 1980.

‘A Silver Medal to Captain Robert Court, s.s. Zeal, for having rescued the crew of the barque Kong Harald during a gale, on the 23rd of February 1879. A Silver Medal and a Binocular Glass to Mr George B. Allen, chief officer, for going with a boat’s crew, and in two trips effecting the rescue, at very great risk to his life from the swamping of the boat after everybody else had got out. £2 each to the four men who formed the boat’s crew’ (Ref. Extract from the 41st Annual Report, 1880).