Awarded to John Henry Morris RN (1858-1945). Obverse: Head of Queen Victoria with a diadem, hair tied in a knot (left). Legend 'VICTORIA REGINA'. Reverse: Within a knotted rope, starboard broadside view of a ship of the line at anchor. Legend: 'FOR LONG SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT'. Inscription on edge: 'JOHN MORRIS, LDG. SEAMN. H.M.S.TRIUMPH'. Suspended from a bar and dark blue ribbon edged with white.

On 13 January 1895, the barque 'Northern Belle', bound from St Valerie to Ipswich with a cargo of phosphates, rang aground off Sandgate, Kent, in bad weather. The local coastguard, using rocket apparatus, put an initial thin line onboard but the crew of 'Northern Belle' were not able to complete the proceedure by using this line to get a block with an endless rope or 'whip' attached to it, onboard and secured. John Morris volunteered to swim to the stranded vessel, partly using the line already in place. He sorted out the ropes communicating with the shore and landed three crew members and himself by breeches buoy.