Orders, Decorations and Medals

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, 3rd type, silver (Capt. Willm. Morrow, barque “British Monarch” for Rescuing 22 of Crew of S.S. “St. Pauli”, March 2 1882) minor edge bruising, good very fine £160-200

‘A Silver Medal and a Vote of Thanks to Captain William Morrow, of the barque “British Monarch”, for having, on the 2nd March last, rescued twenty-two of the crew of the German steamer “St. Pauli”, which vessel was abandoned in the English Channel in a sinking condition, the crew escaping to the barque in their own boat. Two of the steamer’s crew got adrift in their boat while alongside the barque, one of whom was seriously injured, and it was not till some hours afterwards that they were rescued by a boat from the “British Monarch”’. (Extract from the L.S.& H.S. 43rd Annual Report, July 1882).