Barometer 1892

The Society’s Marine Aneroid Presentation Barometer was awarded to Stephen Evans, Master of the schooner Mostyn of Chester for rescuing the crew of the sinking French ss Trignac on 19 Feb 1892:

In the case of the schooner Mostyn, of Chester, for the rescue of the Captain and the crew of sixteen from the French ss Trignac, of La Rochelle, abandoned sinking, after loss of three hands, in the North Atlantic, 20 miles off Scilly on February 19, 1892, to the Master of the schooner, Stephen Evans, the Society’s Marine Aneroid Presentation Barometer.