Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War Lloyd’s Meritorious Service Medal group of five awarded to Captain Arthur P. Logan, Mercantile Marine

Transport 1899-1902, 1 clasp, China 1900 (A. P. Logan); British War Medal 1914-20 (Arthur P. Logan) officially re-impressed naming; Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Arthur P. Logan); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Arthur P. Logan) officially re-impressed naming; Lloyd’s Meritorious Service Medal, 3rd issue, silver (Captain Arthur Patrick Logan, S.S. “Chyebassa”, 8th Dec. 1917); together with a miniature Transport Medal 1899-1902, 1 clasp, China 1900, the renamed pair with edge bruising, fine and better; the others good very fine (6) £1200-1400

Arthur Patrick Logan served as Chief on the British India (Steam Lines) steamship Nerbudda transporting servicemen and equipment to China in 1900. Serving in the Great War as Captain of the S.S. Chyebassa, Logan was awarded the Lloyd’s Meritorious Service Medal - the Chyebassa departed Port Said in a convoy of 13 ships. She was torpedoed by the German submarine UC-25 and was abandoned. As the ship did not sink she was re-boarded and was brought into Marsa Scirocco, Malta and beached. Being fully salvaged and repaired the ship was able to return to service, being sold for scrapping in 1938.