Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Brocklebank Medal, obverse: blue and white enamelled company flag, reverse inscribed in raised letters, ‘Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank Ltd., Liverpool, S.S. “Mahseer” 18th October 1941, Sunk by Enemy Action’, 32mm., silver, unnamed, unmounted, extremely fine £100-140

The S.S. Mahseer, a cargo liner of 7,911 tons, was built in 1925 by Charles Connell & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, for Brocklebanks Ltd. of Liverpool. The ship, en route from India to London, loaded with 3,007 tons of steel, 1,759 tons of cotton, 300 tons of copper and 4,355 tons of general cargo, was sunk by a magnetic mine in the Barrow Deep in the Thames Estuary, 18 October 1941. The crew of 97, including 7 gunners, were all saved. With some copied research.