Orders, Decorations and Medals

Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, bronze (Robert Aitcheson, for gallantry in saving life at the Wreck of “La Capricieuse”, Jany. 25th 1858 in Tranmore Bay) unmounted, some edge bruising, good very fine £250-300

La Capricieuse, a French brig of 110 tons, carrying coal from Llanelly to St. Malo, was wrecked off Rineshark Point, Tranmore Bay, Waterford, on the S.E. coast of Ireland, on 25 January 1858.