Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, G.IV.R., silver (Richard Owen. Voted 11 March 184.) fitted with replacement silver straight bar suspension, edge bruising an contact marks, good fine, the reverse better £240-£280

On 18 December 1845, on passage from Bahia, Brazil, to Liverpool, the ship Frankland was wrecked at Cemaes, north Anglesey, in a violent storm and very heavy seas. The Cemlyn lifeboat (Anglesey Lifesaving Association) launched and saved the Master and his 18 man crew, particular gallantry being shown by seaman Robert Griffith, Landsman Owen Highland, and Seaman Richard Owen (Lifeboat Gallantry, by Barry Cox refers).

For their gallantry, Griffith, Highland, and Owen were all awarded the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck’s silver medal, dated 11 March 1846.