Orders, Decorations and Medals

Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, silver (Thomas Potts, Wreck of the “Domingo” on the 27th November 1888) faint scratches to obverse, good very fine £400-500

Thomas Potts, 2nd Mate of the Napier, was awarded the Board of Trade Gallantry Medal in Silver for the rescue effected upon the Domingo of Sunderland. Gallantry Medals in Bronze were awarded to four seamen of the Napier for the same rescue.