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Description: | Medal commemorating the Suez Canal Clearance 1956-57. Obverse: Suez Canal Company Offices, Port Said, a sheer lighter raising a wreck in front, in the foreground a chain cable being broken by the hook of a crane, its sheave decorated with the badge of the United Nations. Reverse: Salvage vessel and sheer lighter working on a wreck, inscription. below: 'SUEZ CANAL CLEARENCE DEC. 1956 - MAY 1957.' Legend: 'SMIT SVITZER SUEZ SALVORS. UNITED NATIONS.' (outer) 'BELGIUM. DENMARK. W GERMANY. ITALY. YOUGOSLAVIA. THE NETHERLANDS. SWEDEN.' (inner). In original box.
caption: Medal commemorating the Suez Canal Clearance 1956-1957; obverse
caption: Medal commemorating the Suez Canal Clearance 1956-1957; reverse | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | medals Suez Canal Co M. Kutterink | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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