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A Sea Gallantry Medal and Lloyd's Medal for Saving Life at Sea pair awarded to Captain F....
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A Sea Gallantry Medal and Lloyd’s Medal for Saving Life at Sea pair awarded to Captain F. M. Burke, Lloyd’s Agent at Algiers, for the attempted rescue of the steamship Arbib Brothers, 7-8 January 1891 Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, silver (F. M. Burke, casualty to the “Arbib Brothers” on the 8th January 1891) fitted with a straight bar suspension; Lloyd’s Medal for Saving Life at Sea, 1st type silver medallion, 73mm, fitted with a silver band inscribed, ‘Fredric Mollison Burke Lloyd’s Agent at Algiers 7th January 1891’, the obverse with glazed lunette, edge bruise and some contact marks to first, lunette lacking from reverse of latter, otherwise good very fine and better (2) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2013. On a passage from Tripoli, the steamship Arbib Brothers encountered a gale during the night of January 7, 1891, off Cape Cacine and broke off her tailshaft. The vessel drifted into Algiers Bay where she signalled for assistance. Captain Burke, Lloyd’s Agent at Algiers, went out in a small local launch to assist but was forced to return due to the violence of the wind and sea. Later the French steamer Kleber and the trawler Grondin succeeded in passing a tow rope to the stricken vessel and brought her safely into Algiers. Sold with copied Board of Trade papers and other research.
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A Sea Gallantry Medal and Lloyd’s Medal for Saving Life at Sea pair awarded to Captain F. M. Burke, Lloyd’s Agent at Algiers, for the attempted rescue of the steamship Arbib Brothers, 7-8 January 1891 Board of Trade Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea, V.R., large, silver (F. M. Burke, casualty to the “Arbib Brothers” on the 8th January 1891) fitted with a straight bar suspension; Lloyd’s Medal for Saving Life at Sea, 1st type silver medallion, 73mm, fitted with a silver band inscribed, ‘Fredric Mollison Burke Lloyd’s Agent at Algiers 7th January 1891’, the obverse with glazed lunette, edge bruise and some contact marks to first, lunette lacking from reverse of latter, otherwise good very fine and better (2) £600-£800 --- Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2013. On a passage from Tripoli, the steamship Arbib Brothers encountered a gale during the night of January 7, 1891, off Cape Cacine and broke off her tailshaft. The vessel drifted into Algiers Bay where she signalled for assistance. Captain Burke, Lloyd’s Agent at Algiers, went out in a small local launch to assist but was forced to return due to the violence of the wind and sea. Later the French steamer Kleber and the trawler Grondin succeeded in passing a tow rope to the stricken vessel and brought her safely into Algiers. Sold with copied Board of Trade papers and other research.
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