Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, silver (Stanley Prior, Rescue of Jose Paredes on the 27th April 1897) some edge bruising and contact marks, very fine £350-450

Stanley Prior, Third Mate of the sailing ship Khyber, of Liverpool, jumped overboard and rescued from drowning, José Paredes, the Steward of the Khyber, who attempted to commit suicide, in the Indian Ocean, 27 April 1897. (Ref. The Sea Gallantry Medal, by R. J. Scarlett).

Prior was also awarded the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society’s Marine Medal in Silver for this rescue.