Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal (successful) (3rd Engineer David Rennie Kennedy, M.N., 29th July 1956), good very fine £80-100

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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David Rennie Kennedy, who was born at Arrochar in June 1918 and entered the Merchant Navy in September 1947, was serving as Third Engineer of the M.V. Teeswood at the time of winning his Royal Humane Society Medal, in bronze, on 29 July 1956. On that date, when the Teeswood capsized in a Force 10 gale some three miles off Dungeness, he held the ship’s Master up in the water for over an hour, prior to the timely arrival of the Dungeness lifeboat. Kennedy finally came ashore in late 1967; sold with copied service record and further information.