ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY, large silver medal (Successful), (R.A. Scott, Vit. Ob. Serv. D.D. Soc. Reg. Hum. 1841) edge bruises and nicks, therefore nearly very fine

On the 18th of May 1841, a boat was capsized belonging to H.M. ship 'President', at Valparaiso, in which were ten seamen. It blew a strong southerly breeze at the time. Mr. Robert Arthur Scott, mate of that ship, jumped overboard from the gangway, and saved one of the men, who could not swim, after which he swam round the ship during an ineffectual attempt to rescue two more from a watery grave, and was finally the last person taken out of the water.