Orders, Decorations and Medals

Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society, 4th type, silver (John Bowman, Smack “Lusty” 1882) ‘double dolphin’ suspension, suspension slack, good very fine £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Life Saving Awards formed by The Late W.H. Fevyer.

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Ref. Spink Exhibition No. 93.

S.F.M.R.B.S. Records:

‘Bowman, John, Second Hand, Smack Lustyand Hantz, Edward, Third Hand’.

‘In a heavy gale at sea, upwards of a hundred miles N.E. of the Humber, between the 2nd and 6th of December, 1882. The above mentioned men of the smack Lusty, who saved, in the Smack's boat, the Captain and five men forming the crew of the Dutch Schooner Anna Ellena. Hantz was subsequently washed overboard and drowned’.

‘In recognition of his gallant and humane efforts the Master of the Lusty, Ben Backhouse, was presented with one of the Society's Marine Aneroid Presentation Barometers for Fishermen’.