Hamburg, Free City. A Life Saving Medal United Republic of Destroyer Clasp

Destroyer Clasp

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1880 and joined the Royal Navy on July 6

Hamburg, Free City. A Life Saving Medal United Republic of Destroyer Clasp1918 1934 issue. A well preserved example of a Life Saving Medal (Rettungsmedaille) of the Free City of Hamburg; a circular silver medal; the obverse depicting the Coat of Arms of Hamburg, inscribed below Fr Rettung aus Gefahr (German For Rescue from Danger), all circumscribed Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg (German Free and Hanseatic City Hamburg) in Gothic lettering; the reverse depicting a kneeling man struggling to free himself from tentacles; on a