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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 291

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Medal, silver, type 2 1862-1903, obverse: head of Queen Victoria with chaple of oak leaves facing left (Mr. Henry Carr. Voted 1st. March 1877.), engraved in mixed styles, with uniface ´dolphin´ suspension, minor edge bruise, good very fine, mounted in a glazed display frame with a fine watercolour painting of the action, signed by ´B. Walsh´ Estimate £ 600-800 Henry Carr, Examining Officer, H.M. Customs, Wexford, Citation reads: ´22nd January 1877: During a strong south-south-westerly wind the Wexford fishing boat Morning Star stranded in a rough sea on Wexford Bar, off Wexford, Co. Wexford, Ireland. Mr. Carr, with four other men, put off in a small boat and saved the six man crew.´ Mr. Henry Carr, born Galway, Ireland, 1830; served as Superintendent and Receiver of Wrecks for H.M. Customs, Wexford; prior to the Morning Star rescue, Carr had participated on the 20th March 1863 in the rescue of the crew of the smack Nymph, of Wexford, when, together with Thomas Wickham and Thomas Hackett, he launched a fishing cobble in heavy surf and at some risk rescued the crew of the Nymph from their sinking vessel. For this action all three men were awarded a gratuity of 10s each from the Board of Trade. Henry Carr died at Dublin on the 25th January 1903. Note: The Medal has not been removed from the display frame during cataloguing, and the condition stated refers to the obverse condition only.

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