Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal National Lifeboat Institution, G.V.R., silver, a privately-made miniature pin badge, 19mm diameter, reverse only, the back engraved (E. S. Carver Nov 1922.) in fitted case, extremely fine £80-£100

Edward Sterling Carver RD, Commander, RNR, District Inspector of Lifeboats, was awarded the R.N.L.I. Silver medal on 17 November 1922 for his actions between 19 and 21 October 1922, when S.S. Hopelyn - on passage from Tyne to London with a cargo of coal - was wrecked off North Scroby Sands, Yarmouth, Norfolk. The Agnes Cross lifeboat from Lowestoft, Norfolk, and the Suffolk station, under the Command command of Carver, rescued 24 men and a black kitten.

Page 231 of Lifeboat Gallantry: RNLI Medals and How They Were Won, ed. Barry Cox, notes that 27 RNLI medals were awarded for this rescue, including two in gold to the Coxswains of both of lifeboats; two silver (including one to Carver); and the remaining 23 in bronze.