Samuel jun. Higgs
Samuel jun. Higgs
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Samuel Higgs, Mayor of Penzance, resident 1853
purser of Wheal Providence Mine
Samuel Higgs (1794-1874) of Alverton, Penzance. Grocer and merchant; he
held an interest in a large number of mines and was purser of several in St. Just and
Lelant, and Mayor of Penzance. [this may have been the father?]
Penzance, Newlyn and Penlee Lifeboat Station History
1867 Silver Medal awarded to Samuel Higgs Jnr for three services in Mounts Bay in an east-south-easterly gale and very heavy sea 5 January 1867. After a distress signal was seen the lifeboat launched and found the Brixham schooner Salome drifting rapidly towards shore, five men and a boy were taken off just before the casualty stuck the rocks and broke up. More signals were seen in the pitch dark evening with a hurricane now blowing and in heavy rain the lifeboat launched again and returned within an hour having rescued the crew of five from the Looe schooner Selina Ann. The third time the lifeboat launched was to the Teignmouth schooner Hairess when she rescued six people.
1869 Silver Medals awarded to Coxswain T Carbis, Second Coxswain Higgans, Captain R B Cay RN, Mr W Blackmore and Mr Samuel Higgs Jnr, for a service to the Barque North Britain that was driven ashore in a gale on 6 December 1868. It took just over an hour for the Penzance lifeboat reached the casualty but a great sea struck, and capsized her trapping Coxswain Carbis. He was recovered and with Captain Cay’s help taken back to the shore. A fresh crew was put aboard the lifeboat and pulling through tremendous wind and sea reached the wreck and rescue eight men before the masts went and the vessel broke up.
London Gazette 1861: 17th May. Samuel Higgs, junior, of Penzance, in the county of Cornwall: An improvement in separating or precipitating copper from water having it in solution
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Penlee House Gallery & Museum Penzance; RNLI silver medal: face, head of Victoria, inscription Victoria Patron and Royal National Lifeboat Institution founded in 1824 incorporated 1860. Reverse 3 figures in carvel-built boat, inscription Let not the deep swallow me up. Rim inscription Samuel Higgs Junior Esq Voted Jan 17th 1867. Swivel clasp decorated with two fish. Inscription 7th Jan 1869.