e wreck,
seventeen in number, including the pilot. A few moments after,
while all on board were congratulating themselves upon the
fortunate escape, a terrific wave, which appeared, as averred by
the deposition of some of the survivors, to be as high as a
house, threw the life-boat entirely over, and eight of those
belonging to the ship, including the captain and his wife, the
pilot, and three of the fifteen life-boat men, making twelve
persons in all, were drowned. The life-boat, which appears not to
have been of the self-righting variety, remained bottom upward,
and after struggling in the water for a considerable time, the
survivors, being twelve of the life-boat crew and eight of the
crew of the ship, managed to get on to her, where they clung for
about an hour in great peril, when the New Brighton life-boat
arrived and took them on board.

This melancholy disaster sets in the strongest relief the (p. 447)
gallant devotion of the crews of the two English life-boats,
all the members of which risked their lives, while three of them
died in the brave effort to save our countrymen. The sorrow that
must be felt for those who perished in this manly endeavor is
tempered with satisfaction that the terms of the law permit us to
bestow upon their living comrades in the enterprise the fitting
tokens of our appreciation; and gold medals of the first class
have been awarded to the twenty-seven survivors, and will be
struck as soon as possible.

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I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. I. KIMBALL,
_In charge of life-Saving Service_.

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_Colonel J. S. Crosby, U. S. Consul at Florence, Italy, for rescuing
the life of Miss Edith May, and endeavoring to rescue the late Miss
Adele Hunter, and Mr. W. T. Garner and his wife, at the sinking of the
Yacht "Mohawk," in New York Harbor, July 20, 1876. Awarded June 8,
1877._

To Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary,
COLONEL J. SCHUYLER CROSBY, Washington, D. C., June 30, 1877.
United States Consul, Florence, Italy.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a life-saving medal of
the first class, and which has been awarded to y