Orders, Decorations and Medals

Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, bronze (Daniel Patterson, Wreck of the “Little Wonder” on the 24th September 1891) some edge bruising, very fine £180-220

The rescue of the crew from the schooner Little Wonder of Fowey, was effected at great risk and difficulty in the North Atlantic Ocean, by men from the steamship Siberian of Glasgow, on 24 September 1891.

The Board of Trade Silver Medal for Humanity was awarded to the Master of the Siberian; a Board of Trade Silver Medal for Gallantry was awarded to the Second Mate and Bronze Medals for Gallantry with a gratuity of £2 were each awarded to six others, including one to Able Seaman Daniel Patterson.