A rare and emotive Mercantile Marine pair awarded to Stewardess Margaret Craigie, a survivor of the Lusitania disaster

British War and Mercantile Marine Medals (Margaret Craigie) extremely fine (2) £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Female Medics.

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Dix Noonan Webb, December 2007.

Margaret Craigie, who was born in Islay in 1875, was one of four Stewardesses transferred from the S.S. Cameronia to the Lusitania at New York, together with a Matron, shortly before the latter embarked on her fateful voyage on 1 May 1915. Six days later, the great liner was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Southern Ireland by the German submarine U-20, but Margaret Craigie was among the survivors: of Lusitania’s 20 Stewardesses, including the four transferred from the Cameronia, only nine survived.