Obverse: A nude boy with short cloak flying out from his shoulder, blowing on a torch held in his right hand'. Legend: 'LATEAT SCINTILLVLA FORSAN'. Exergue: "SOC . LOND . IN . RESVSCITAT . INTERMORTVORVM INSTIT . MDCCLXXIV'. Reverse: Within an oak wreath tied with ribbon, name of recipient and inscription. Legend: "HOC PRETIVM CIVE SERVATO TVLIT". Inscription: "VIT.OB SERV.D.D.SOC.REG.HVM." [5 straight lines]. Inscription on edge: 'LIEUT. N.S.F. DIGBY R.N. 10 AUGUST 1866'. [Awarded for successfully saving life]. Suspended by a cusped bar from a dark blue ribbon with a pin brooch atttached.

Lieutenant Noel Stephen Fox Digby (1839-1920) was awarded the Royal Humane Society bronze medal for saving the life of Midshipman H.C.A. Morshed who had fallen from the yards into the sea. The incident took place off Falmouth on the evening of 10 August 1866.