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REWARDS FOR SAVING LIFE.At a meeting of the Royal Humane Society, held at the offices, Trafalgar-square, Mr. Hawes, the treasurer, presiding, several interesting cases of saving life were investigated, and rewards of various descriptions were conferred. The society’s silver medallion was, on the recommendation of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, unanimously voted to Edouard Voisard, ofHavre, formerly a captain in the merchant service, for saving Douglas Yates, of the yacht Hildegarde, under the following circumstances: On the 7th ult., during the International Yacht Race, at Havre, Douglas Yates was washed overboard from the bowsprit of the Hildegarde, while bending the jibtopsail in the course of the race. Captain Voisard, who witnessed the accident from on board the Herminet a small screw steamer, at once plunged in to the rescue of the drowning man, who had become disabled from the fall, and after great difficulty, owing to the wind blowing fresh from the westward with considerable force, the weather being cloudy and squally, succeeded in rescuing the man from being drowned, although, unfortunately, he died some two hours afterwards from congestion of the brain. The society’s silver medallion was unanimously recommended to be voted to James Warburton for being instrumental in saving nine lives. On the 18th ult., a small river steamer named the Albert Victor, which plies regularly on Sundays during the summer season between Lincoln and Pyewipe, having at the time upwardsof 100 persons on board, foundered, all the passengers being thrown into the water. The great majority managed to reach the shore, but many were in imminent danger of drowning. Warburton, who was walking ov the banks of the river, was a witness of the accident, and without waiting to divest himself of any of his clothes, plunged in again and again to the rescue of the drowning, diving each time, and in this way rescued Mrs. Wolstencroft and her daughter, Mrs. Matthews, Thomas Rudge, Alice Rudge, Anna Maria Kelly, Mary Ann Kelly, John Ashton, and Mrs. Ashton. A handsome testimonial, inscribed on vellum, was also awarded to Warburton for saving, on the27th ult., Thomas Sergent and his son, who accidentallyfell into apit full of water, 16 feet deep, at Braee-Tnlt;dss, for sai' into up’water, at Falmouth Dock; to Frank Graddan, a boybridge. The society’s bronze medallion was awarded to John Moss, for saving Peter Roberts, who on a dark night in June, fell into upwards of 12 feet ofonly 14 years of age, for saving Henry Silver, another boy, who fell overboard in a strong tideway off Grays, Essex, and being unable to swim was in great danger of drowning, both boys belonging to the School Board ship Shaftesbury ; to Frank Romer, for saving Thomas Fox, a saloon passenger on board the Panmure, for New Zealand, who, while standing on the forecastle head, was seized with epilepsy ana fell overboard at sea, the ship at the time going at the rate of three knots under canvas, the danger incurred by the rescuer being increased by sharks having been previously seen round the vessel. Testimonials, inscribed on vellum and on parchment, recording the services rendered and the acknowledgments of the sooiety, were also given to Frederiok William Gregory, for saving William Bathard, who got out of his depth while bathing in the River Kennett, on the 5th of June; to Wifliam Green, for saving Vincent Perry who fell into the canal at Leicester, on the 15th o June; to Samuel Allen, for saving Patrick Ward, who fell off the Quay at Limerick, on the 20th of June; to John Hartley, for saving James Oawthorn, who jumped into the canal at Knottingley in a fit of temporary insanity on the 7th of July; to Robert Bodger, for saving Albert Small, who got out of his depth while bathing at Bbber River, Monmouthshire, on the 13th of June; to Patrick Flynn, for saving William Oreagh, who accidentally fell into the River Lee, Cork, on the 25th ult; to Charles Miller, for saving F. G. Lovell, who accidentally fell into the River Kennett while fishing on the 17th uit. Pecuniary awards of various amounts were also given in several cases, and, some further business having been disposed of, the committee adjourned.
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London Mid Surrey Times Kingston Express and Richmond Herald
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Aug 30, 1879
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