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D.S.C. London Gazette 6.4.1918 'In recognition of services in vessels of the Auxiliary Patrol between 1 January and 31 December 1917'.
Lieutenant George Scott, D.S.C., afterwards a Captain in the Merchant Navy, was appointed a Temporary Sub. Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve in February 1915 and shortly afterwards to an Auxiliary Small Craft, the Yacht Rosabelle. Advanced to Lieutenant in June of the same year, he was next appointed, in August 1916, to be borne as additional in H.M.S. Attentive, in which capacity he went on to win his D.S.C.
Scott returned to the Merchant Navy after the War and by 1922 was in command of the Steamer Euclid, a vessel of the Lamport and Holt Line. On 9 September of that year, he participated in the rescue of passengers and crew from the Hamburg-Amerika Line's Hammonia off Vigo - the latter, bound for Havana and Santa Cruz, had foundered at 6.26 p.m., a number of vessels coming to her assistance. Scott's Lloyd's Medal citation takes up the story:
'It would appear that at 9 a.m. on 9 September the last S.O.S. signals were received from the Hammonia by various Steamers which rushed through the heavy seas and squally weather to her assistance. The Kinfauns Castle was the first to sight the stricken vessel and also many partially submerged lifeboats and rafts with people clinging to them; on reaching the scene at noon her Captain immediately sent six boats to begin rescue operations. Meanwhile several other Steamers, including the Euclid arrived on the scene and stood by. During the afternoon the Euclid steamed away from the Hammonia to pick up a raft which was drifting in the North-Easterly gale to the South-West and on returning sighted a number of women clinging to the bottom of an upturned boat and floating wreckage. Her lifeboat was then launched and these people rescued. All this time the side ladders were rigged and the Euclid was engaged in taking on board people from the boats which came alongside. At the completion of the rescue at approximately 6.20 p.m., 89 passengers and crew from the Hammonia had been picked up by the Euclid'.
For his 'gallant conduct and heroic services rendered during the rescue operations, and for the superb way he handled his vessel in difficult conditions', Scott received both his Lloyd's and Liverpool Shipwreck awards.
Lieutenant George Scott, D.S.C., afterwards a Captain in the Merchant Navy, was appointed a Temporary Sub. Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve in February 1915 and shortly afterwards to an Auxiliary Small Craft, the Yacht Rosabelle. Advanced to Lieutenant in June of the same year, he was next appointed, in August 1916, to be borne as additional in H.M.S. Attentive, in which capacity he went on to win his D.S.C.
Scott returned to the Merchant Navy after the War and by 1922 was in command of the Steamer Euclid, a vessel of the Lamport and Holt Line. On 9 September of that year, he participated in the rescue of passengers and crew from the Hamburg-Amerika Line's Hammonia off Vigo - the latter, bound for Havana and Santa Cruz, had foundered at 6.26 p.m., a number of vessels coming to her assistance. Scott's Lloyd's Medal citation takes up the story:
'It would appear that at 9 a.m. on 9 September the last S.O.S. signals were received from the Hammonia by various Steamers which rushed through the heavy seas and squally weather to her assistance. The Kinfauns Castle was the first to sight the stricken vessel and also many partially submerged lifeboats and rafts with people clinging to them; on reaching the scene at noon her Captain immediately sent six boats to begin rescue operations. Meanwhile several other Steamers, including the Euclid arrived on the scene and stood by. During the afternoon the Euclid steamed away from the Hammonia to pick up a raft which was drifting in the North-Easterly gale to the South-West and on returning sighted a number of women clinging to the bottom of an upturned boat and floating wreckage. Her lifeboat was then launched and these people rescued. All this time the side ladders were rigged and the Euclid was engaged in taking on board people from the boats which came alongside. At the completion of the rescue at approximately 6.20 p.m., 89 passengers and crew from the Hammonia had been picked up by the Euclid'.
For his 'gallant conduct and heroic services rendered during the rescue operations, and for the superb way he handled his vessel in difficult conditions', Scott received both his Lloyd's and Liverpool Shipwreck awards.