A Collection of Medals Relating to H.M.S. Cornwallis

Three: Mr Richard Jinks, Chief Officer, H.M. Coastguard, Cardigan, late Royal Navy

China 1842 (Richard Jinks, H.M.S. Cornwallis) original suspension and fitted with silver brooch pin; Baltic 1854-55, unnamed as issued, fitted with silver brooch pin; Royal National Lifeboat Institution, V.R., silver (Mr. Richard Jinks Voted 2nd October, 1873.) with uniface ‘double dolphin’ suspension and fitted with silver ribbon buckle, all mounted in fitted velvet lined display pad, toned, nearly extremely fine (3) £1,800-£2,200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals Relating to H.M.S. Cornwallis.

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Wallis & Wallis, May 1988.

R.N.L.I. Silver Medal, Voted 2 October 1873:

Richard Jinks, Chief Officer, H.M. Coastguard, Cardigan.

13 September 1873: ‘In acknowledgement of his general gallant conduct in saving life from shipwreck in the lifeboats of the Institution’, particularly on the 13th when he put off twice in the Cardigan Coastguard boat and saved the crew of 2 men of the smack Ocean of Milford, which had been driven on Cardigan Bar during a violent south-easterly wind and a heavy sea.’

‘CARDIGAN - In heavy weather the Lifeboat John Stuart was launched from this station on the 7th March, and succeeded in saving 7 men from the Hanoverian schooner Dollart.
On the 20th Oct. this boat was launched at 5.30 a.m., and saved the crew of the sloop Peggy, of Cardigan, which, in a strong N.N.W. gale, was riding at anchor in the breakers of Cardigan Bar and burning distress signals. Owing to the distance of the crew from the station only 8 of them could be got together, and with this number the John Stuart performed the service, after three hours’ hard work, under the charge of Mr JINKS, of H.M. Coastguard, who volunteered for the duty of coxswain, the coxswain taking an oar. A farmer, who rode some distance during the night with the intelligence of the wreck to the coastguard station, took another oar. For this and another gallant service on the 13th Sept., in a coastguard galley, the Institution presented Mr JINKS with its silver medal. (The Life-Boat, February 1st, 1875, refers).