[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 33CFR13.01-25]



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                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

         CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

 

PART 13_DECORATIONS, MEDALS, RIBBONS AND SIMILAR DEVICES--Table of 

Contents

 

  Subpart 13.01_Gold and Silver Lifesaving Medals, Bars, and Miniatures

 

Sec. 13.01-25  Description of Gold Lifesaving Medal.



    (a) The Gold Lifesaving Medal is 99.9 percent pure gold and consists 

of a pendant suspended by a swivel from the head of an eagle attached to 

a silk grogram ribbon 1 and \3/8\ths inches in width, composed of a \3/

16\ths of an inch red stripe, a \1/32\d of an inch white stripe, a \15/

16\ths of an inch gold stripe, a \1/32\d of an inch white stripe, and a 

\3/16\ths of an inch red stripe. The pendant is 1 and \7/16\ths inches 

in diameter and \3/32\ds of an inch in thickness. There appear, on the 

obverse side of the pendant, three men in a boat in a heavy sea; one is 

rescuing a person clinging to a spar at the end of which is a block and 

line; another is standing, prepared to heave a line; a third is rowing; 

in the distance, to the left, is the wreck of a vessel; the whole is 

encircled by the words: ``United States of America'', in



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the upper half, and ``Act of Congress, August 4, 1949'', in the lower 

half. On the reverse side of the pendant there appears, in the center a 

monument surmounted by an American eagle; the figure of a woman stands, 

to the left, holding in her left hand an oak wreath, and with her right 

hand, preparing to inscribe the name of the recipient on the monument; 

to the right are grouped a mast, a yard with a sail, an anchor, a 

sextant, and a laurel branch; the whole is encircled by the words: ``In 

testimony of heroic deeds in saving life from the perils of the water.''

    (b) Engraving: Before presentation, the recipient's name shall be 

inscribed on the ``monument'', on the reverse of the medal.