Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea pair awarded to Third Hand Joseph Nixon of the Steam Tug Circe

Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, silver (Joseph Nixon, Wreck of the “Boreas on the 26th November 1896) edge bruising; Germany, Oldenburg, Medal of Merit for Saving Life, by Brehmer, 30mm., silver, edge inscribed, ‘......... Joseph Nixon, ....... Boston, 18 Oct.1901’, medals set in a modern glass-fronted case, good very fine (2) £700-900

Third Hand Joseph Nixon of the Steam Tug Circe, was awarded the Board of Trade Gallantry Medal in Silver for a rescue effected upon the schooner Boreas of Bristol. Three silver medals were awarded for this rescue action. He was later awarded a lifesaving medal from the German Grand Duchy of Oldenburg.