Auction Catalogue

12 & 13 December 2012

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 455 x

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13 December 2012

Hammer Price:
£370

Lloyd’s Medal for Saving Life at Sea, 2nd small type, silver (Boatswain’s Mate Philip Larbalastier, S.S. “Dwinsk”, 18th June 1918) in Wyon, London case of issue, extremely fine £280-320

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Life Saving Awards.

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The Russian East Asiatic Steamship Co steamship Dwinsk, of 8,173 tons, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine 400 miles N.N.E. of Bermuda, on 18 June 1918. Twenty-four of her crew were killed. With some copied details.