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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 294

Royal National Lifeboat Institution Medal, silver, type 2 1862-1903, obverse: head of Queen Victoria with chaple of oak leaves facing left (Mr. Robert Jones. Voted 14th. March 1889.), engraved in mixed styles, with uniface ´dolphin´ suspension, nearly extremely fine Estimate £ 400-500 Robert Jones, Assistant Coxswain, Holyhead Lifeboat, citation reads: ´9th February 1889: After the Halifax, Nov Scotia barque Glen Grant, from Pensacola, Florida, parted from her cable in a gale while anchored in the New Harbour, Holyhead, Anglesey, she was seen among the rocks off Penrhos. Her 13 man crew was taken off by a line put aboard by rocket apparatus. The Holyhead lifeboat helped at the scene.´ For this action Edward Jones, Coxswain, was awarded a Second Award bar to his R.N.L.I. silver medal and Robert Jones was awarded the R.N.L.I. silver medal, both awards ´in acknowledgement of their gallant services in the lifeboat, extending over many years.´

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