United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed HARLAND RL

HARLAND RL

HMCS Digby (inscribed in handwritten blue ink "Depth Charge Thrower / The model depth charge thrower was constructed by the Leading Torpedoman on HMCS DIGBY

with a surmounting crown with blue enamelled pendilia

bearing an engraved date of “16

this time to the General Depot at Witley for the next three months

United Kingdom; Germany, Imperial. A Lusitania Medallion Newly Listed HARLAND RLIn gilt iron, magnetic, obverse illustrating the stricken liner sinking, her stern submerged to left while her ram shaped bow, laden with armaments, rises clear of the water (an image contradicting eyewitness accounts which stated that the ship went down bow first, the shape of the bow being a reference to the configuration of warships of the period and possibly a reminder that the British Admiralty had ordered merchant vessels to attempt to ram