LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY'S MEDAL FOR LIFESAVING, Marine, 'oval' type, silver, the reverse officially inscribed, 'James Moore, Boatman, 25th Octr. 1872', and the edge further inscribed, 'For Gallantry Carrying a Line Ashore from "The Queen of the Fleet" at Puffin Island in a Gale on 3 Oct. 1872, By Which the Crew Were Rescued', extremely fine

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LIVERPOOL SHIPWRECK AND HUMANE SOCIETY'S MEDAL FOR LIFESAVING, Marine, 'oval' type, silver, the reverse officially inscribed, 'James Moore, Boatman, 25th Octr. 1872', and the edge further inscribed, 'For Gallantry Carrying a Line Ashore from "The Queen of the Fleet" at Puffin Island in a Gale on 3 Oct. 1872, By Which the Crew Were Rescued', extremely fine

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Lot Essay

'To James Moore, Boatman, a Silver Medal, for gallantly in jumping overboard from the Barque Queen of the Fleet, which was stranded on rocks near Puffin Island, Beaumaris, in a gale of wind on 3 October 1872, and carrying a line to the shore (about 100 yards distant) by which the Captain, his wife, son, daughter, and seven more were rescued in a boat which was sent on shore, on the lee side of the Island, from the Tug Warrior' (The Society's 34th Annual Report refers).