Orders, Decorations and Medals

Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, bronze (Josh. Wade, Wreck of the “Dean of Guild” of Perth, on the Sunk Sands, on the 15th Nov. 1858) minor edge bruising, very fine £250-300

Seaman Joseph Wade of the smack Increase of Colchester, was awarded the Board of Trade Gallantry Medal in Bronze and £1 for rescuing, in the smack’s boat, in a violent gale, the crew of the schooner Dean of Guild, of Perth, which was wrecked on the Sunk Sand, Essex. The Master and Mate had previously been washed overboard. Three other seamen from the Increase were similarly awarded.