ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK SILVER MEDAL (1824-54), type l, G.IV.R obverse (Kenneth McCulloch, Voted Mar. 14 1832), pierced for ring suspension as issued, engraved naming in large serif capitals, with 'Second Award Silver Boat', the interior engraved, 'Kenneth McCulloch, Voted 21 May 1834', suspended from the Medal by two short silver chains, extremely fine in original fitted leather case

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ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK SILVER MEDAL (1824-54), type l, G.IV.R obverse (Kenneth McCulloch, Voted Mar. 14 1832), pierced for ring suspension as issued, engraved naming in large serif capitals, with 'Second Award Silver Boat', the interior engraved, 'Kenneth McCulloch, Voted 21 May 1834', suspended from the Medal by two short silver chains, extremely fine in original fitted leather case

Lot Essay

Silver Medal 14.3.1832 'On 6 March 1832, when the Sloop Vine struck the bar at Elie Harbour, Fife and was wrecked, Lieutenant Randall and five men, McCulloch among them, put off in a Gig and saved the Master and two seamen'.

Silver Medal 21.5.1834 'On 2 Feburary 1833, when the Schooner Wanderer was wrecked at Elie, Fife, in a violent storm, Lieutenant Randall and Mr. McCulloch put off in the Coast Guard Gig with two other men and, at the third attempt, rescued the Master and six men. They were landed under a salute of three cheers from several hundred spectators on the beach'.

Kenneth McCulloch was the Chief Boatman of the Coast Guard at Elie, Fife.