Orders, Decorations and Medals

U.S.A., Wreck of the Steamship San Francisco Medal 1866, by Anthony Paquet, obverse: a man and woman on a raft at sea; reverse: the female ‘America’ seated, crowns a kneeling seaman with a wreath, 82mm., bronze-gilt specimen, unnamed; Medal to Assistant Surgeon Dr Frederick Rose, R.N., by Anthony Paquet, obverse: bust of President Buchanan right; reverse: figures in classical garments, ‘To Dr. Frederick Rose, Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy, G.B.’, in exergue, ‘For kindness and humanity to officers and crew of the U.S. steamship Susquehanna’, 76mm., bronze-gilt specimen, unnamed; Medal for Saving Life from Drowning 1874, by C. Barber, obverse: head of John Horn Jr. left; reverse: ‘By Act of Congress June 20th 1874. In Recognition of his Heroic Exploits in Rescuing Men Women & Children from Drowning in Detroit River’, 49mm., bronze-gilt specimen, unnamed, about extremely fine (3) £100-140

The Wreck of the Steamship San Francisco Medal was awarded in Gold to Captain Creghton of the Three Bells of Glasgow; Captain Low of the barque Kilby of Boston, and Captain Stouffer of the ship Antarctic ‘for their gallant conduct in rescuing about five hundred Americans from the wreck of the steamship San Francisco’.