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ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY MEDAL AWARDED FOR RESCUE AT SEA, MARTIN LARSEN BOATSWAIN. SS.SAXOLEINE, 3 DECEMBER 1899
Small bronze Type II successful rescue medal, correctly engraved naming in bold upright capital letters - MARTIN LARSEN DEC:3.1899 (On 3 December 1899, while the SS. Saxoleine of Newcastle was in mid-Atlantic, the Second Engineer entered the pump room, intending to pump out a quantity of crude petroleum which had leaked in, when he was rendered unconscious by the fumes, and fell down into the oil. MARTIN LARSEN, the ship's Boatswain, on seeing what had occurred immediately went down into the pump room, and at great personal risk managed to bring the unconscious man up on deck, where he too became insensible and collapsed from inhaling the deadly vapour.) The SS Saxoleine was a steam tanker built in 1899 and sailed under the British flag. It was broken up in 1929. Martin Larsen was believed to be either of Danish or Norwegian origin. RHS. Report 1900, Case Number : 30497: Compete with bronze claw-buckle wearing brooch mounted on what appears to be the original ribbon. Sold with some background research - NEF - £350