Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2014

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

№ 459

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25 June 2014

Hammer Price:
£340

S.S. Drummond Castle Medal 1896, silver, unnamed as issued, nearly extremely fine £200-250

The Castle Mail Packets Company liner S.S. Drummond Castle, homeward bound from Natal and Capetown, struck a reef off Ushant in a fog on the night of 16th June, 1896. Of the 143 passengers and 104 officers and crew, only three escaped.

Silver medals were struck with the approval of Queen Victoria for award to the Breton fishermen and other inhabitants of Brest, Ushant, and Molene who helped in rescuing the survivors, and in the recovery and burial of those lost.