Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry and Lloyd’s Medal for Saving Life at Sea pair awarded to Able Seaman R. C. Phillipps, for saving the life of the crew of the barquentine Indian Chief in the English Channel on 22-23 December 1895

Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large silver medallion, 58mm (Roland Phillips Wreck of the “Indian Chief” on the 23rd. December 1895.); Lloyd’s Medal for Saving Life at Sea, 1st large type bronze medallion, 73mm (R. C. Phillipps, “Indian Chief” 22nd. Decr. 1895) edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (2) £460-500

Provenance: Glendining’s, September 1987.

Roland C. Phillipps was one of six men from the steamship Batanga of Glasgow who was awarded both the Board of Trade’s Silver Medal for Gallantry and the Lloyd’s Bronze Medal for saving life at sea for rescuing the crew of the barquentine Indian Chief, of Banff, which foundered in the English Channel on the night of the 22-23 December 1895. He was presented with his Board of Trade Medal, together with a gratuity of £2, at Liverpool.