---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 13.01-30"
title: "33"
number: "13.01-30"
heading: "Description of Silver Lifesaving Medal."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/13.01-30"
---

# §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 3/8ths inches in width, composed of a 3/16ths of an inch blue stripe, a 1/32d of an inch white stripe, a 15/16ths of an inch silver gray stripe, a 1/32d of an inch white stripe, and a 3/32ds of an inch blue stripe. The pendant is 1 and 7/16ths inches in diameter and 3/32ds 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.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 14 U.S.C. 503, 2744; 49 U.S.C. 1655(b); sec. 6(b)(1), 80 Stat. 938; 49 CFR 1.4 (a)(2) and (f).

### Source

Source: CGFR 68-134, 33 FR 18932, Dec. 19, 1968, unless otherwise noted.