Obverse: A group of four people in different attitudes in a piece of wreckage, hailing a ship in distance (left), a boat putting off. Legend: 'IN TESTIMONY OF RESCUE FROM SEA-DANGER'. Reverse: Within an oak wreath tied with a bow and decorated banner. Legend: 'ANERKENNUNG FUR RETTUNG AUS SEEGEFAHR. HAMBURG'. Inscription: 'P.H. JNO. NOEL'. Inscription above: 'FROM THE SOCIETY FOR SAVING PEOPLE SHIPWRECKED ON THE HIGH SEAS'. Inscription: 'VON DER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR RETTUNG SCHIFFBRUCHIGER AUFHOHER SEE PH. JNO. NOEL' (name incuse).

Philip John Noel (1862-1916) was born in St Martin's Parish, Jersey. In 1888 he was certified by the Board of Trade to Act as Second Mate. On 21 December 1889, as Second Officer on the SS 'Stag' he commanded a boat which took off the officers and crew of the German ship 'Shakspere' which was sinking in the Atlantic in bad weather. This vessel was later sighted abandoned but still afloat. For this rescue, Noel was also awarded a gold medal by the Lifesaving Benevolent Fund of New York. Noel received his BT certificate as First Mate in 1890 and the following year appears in the census resident in Cardiff. He married Mary Edith Jenkins there on 1 Nov 1902 and in the 1911 census the couple have two children and are running a public house. During the First World, Philip Noel was back at sea, and died in the loss of the SS 'Euterpe', Cardiff, sunk by a German mine in the North Sea on 7 January 1916. His name is recorded on the Tower Hill memorial.