Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, large bronze medal (successful). the reverse officially inscribed, ‘T. Sinclair, 1842’, good very fine £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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Sinclair, of H.M. mail packet Widgeon, was awarded the R.H.S. Medal, in bronze, after manning a boat loaned by the Humane Society of Calais for the rescue of the crew of the collier Minerva of Jersey, grounded in a gale outside the French port, on 9 March 1842 - ‘after great personal risk, [Sinclair and his shipmates] brought all the crew, seven in number, safely on shore’; sold with further details.