Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Sea Gallantry Medal (Foreign Service) awarded to Third Mate P. P. Jörgensen, Mercantile Marne, for the rescue of the shipwrecked crew of the Schooner Olwen in the North Sea off the Dutch Coast on 9 July 1903

Sea Gallantry Medal (Foreign Services), E.VII.R., silver, ‘From the British Government, For Gallantry and Humanity’ (Poul Peder Jorgensen. Wreck of the Schooner “Olwen” on the 9th. July. 1903.) good very fine £240-£280

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of H.M. King Edward VII Medals.

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Paul Peder Jörgensen, the Third Mate of the Danish steamship Gallia, of Copenhagen, was awarded the Sea Gallantry Medal (Foreign Services), as well as a gratuity of £2, for his rescue of the Schooner Olwen, of Milford, which was abandoned eight miles north north west of Penel, Holland.