[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: 33CFR13.01-30]



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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. 13.01-30  Description of Silver Lifesaving Medal.



    (a) The Silver Lifesaving Medal is 99 percent pure silver 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 blue stripe, a \1/32\d of an inch 

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

an inch white stripe, and a \3/32\ds of an inch blue stripe. The pendant 

is 1 and \7/16\ths inches in diameter and \3/32\ds of an inch in 

thickness. On the obverse side of the pendant there appears the figure 

of a woman hovering over a man struggling in heavy sea and extending to 

him one end of a long scarf; the whole is encircled by the words: 

``United States of America'', in the upper half, and ``Act of Congress, 

August 4, 1949'', in the lower half. On the reverse there appears a 

laurel wreath 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 inside the laurel wreath, on the reverse of the medal.