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8 February 2015].
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At Buckingham
Palace arrived sailors
And fishermen, to
number eleven -
Presented to the
King were given
The Board of
Trade Silver Medal -
In their gallantry
for saving lives at sea.
From the Board of
Trade these brave
Awardees, were conveyed
by motor
Cars - to arrive
10.30 a.m. at the Palace
To receive their
investiture at 11 a.m.
At the sinking of
the HMS Formidable,
In the English
Channel - by torpedo -
Came the crew and
their skipper,
Of the Brixham - a
Westcountry Trawler
Who carried out
an act of brave rescue.
These men were
alongside a group
Who had been at
the Volturno disaster -
One man to meet
the king, was to gain
A medal from the
Banshee disaster -
With others
there, at the sinking of the D5
Submarine struck
by a German mine.
Others to attend
the King, included
Representations
of the Admiralty
With Equerries, a
Lord and Groom
In waiting -
master of the Household,
And the Registrar
of the Medal.
Mr Runciman -
president of the Board
Of Trade - read
aloud all recorded
Accounts, for
each individual, or group,
Presented for
their recognized service,
That King George
would then honour.
Without great formality
of speeches,
King George shook
each man's hand,
After attaching
the medals to their
Lapels - with
words of commendation.
For the peacetime
crew of steamers
That rushed to the
aid of the Volturno
In 1913 - unable
to subdue the fire
Aboard, to rescue
520 souls - in all,
Men of the
Devonian of Liverpool
And of
Rappahannock and Belfast's
Minneapolis, were
presented awards.
An event in the
North Atlantic on 17
January 1914,
where the Banshee,
A Schooner, was
aided by steamship
Cornishman - whose lifeboat launch,
Manned by six -
saw the to the safety
Of five crew
hands, in the rough sea.
With the loss of
British Submarine D5,
Striking a mine
on 3 November 1914,
The steam drifter
Faithful - the skipper
James Collin aware
of other mines
Took without any hesitation,
their
Help to save four
out of the five crew.
Under their own
heading, a special
Note was made,
for 1 January 1915,
When his
majesty's Ship Formidable,
Come to grief in
the English Channel -
With sixty nine
men and two warrant
Officers, adrift
upon a frail launch.
Within view of
the trawler Provident.
Which ranged
forward, in heavy seas
And gales, to get
alongside to throw
Out a line -
making threes failed tries.
The fourth
attempt gained success -
With risk to the
trawler, by a gybe
Maneuver, the
launch sat alongside,
To take men
aboard, back to Brixham.
From the Merchant
Shipping act 1854.
Defined the award
for their civil acts
Of gallantry,
these men - crews of
Ordinary trawlers
and steam ships,
Behaved in a
brave manner, beyond
Any thoughts for
their own safety.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. King
and Heroes - Medals for Seamen - Fishermen Decorated. The Daily Telegraph,
[online] 8 Jan. P.11.
Col.4. Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11393517/Daily-Telegraph-February-8-1915.html
[Accessed: 8 February 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 8 February 2015).
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