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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 292

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Medal, silver, type 2 1862-1903, obverse: head of Queen Victoria with chaple of oak leaves facing left (Mr. George Kyle. Voted 3rd. April 1879.), engraved in mixed styles, with uniface ´dolphin´ suspension, extremely fine, in R.N.L.I. leather case of issue Estimate £ 400-500 George Kyle, Assistant Coxswain, Holy Island Lifeboat, citation reads: ´20th March 1879: The S.S. Darlington was wrecked at False Emmanuel Head, Holy Island, during a fog and heavy sea. The Holy Island No. 1 lifeboat Grace Darling saved nine men from the wreck.´ The screw steamer Darlington, 169 tons, was built at Stockton in 1871, owned by W. Robertson, and traded regularly between Dundee, her home port, and Liverpool. For this action Matthew Kyle, Coxswain, and George Kyle were both awarded the R.N.L.I. silver medal ´in acknowledgement of their long and gallant services in saving lives from shipwreck.´ Provenance: J.B. Hayward Collection, Spink, November 1995.

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