Orders, Decorations and Medals

Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society, Marine Medal, silver (To Chief Officer Robert John Johnstone, S.S. “Carmania” For Gallant Service 10th Oct. 1913) contained in its Oldfields Ltd case of issue, nearly extremely fine

An award for the rescue of passengers and crew from the steamship Volturno whose cargo caught fire in mid-Atlantic, resulting in the loss of 103 passengers and 30 crew. See ‘Dictionary of Disasters at Sea’ for further details of this notorious incident.