The loss of the Ocean Monarch - a reward for an heroic rescue.

From ‘The Scientific American’, September 30th, 1848

A NOBLE ACT HANDSOMELY ACKNOWLEDGED

The Common Council of New York have voted the freedom of the city and a gold box, with suitable inscriptions, to Frederick Jerome, the gallant sailor who saved so many passengers of the Ocean Monarch, at the evident peril of his own life. Jerome belongs to the port of New York, where his wife and family reside. He had, on a previous occasion saved a number of lives and when the catastrophe happened to the Ocean Monarch, he swam to the wreck and with his own hands lowered some fifteen or twenty helpless females into the boat. He was rewarded by a present of £50 from the Prince de Joinville and Duc d’Aumale; the Queen of England also presented him with another £50, and the Humane Society of Liverpool with a gold medal. This intrepid sailor reached this city a few days since in the ship New World, and the Common Council have appointed a special committee to wait on him with their handsome acknowledgement of his intrepidity and humanity.

      “The star-spangled banner rejoices to wave,
       O’er one so intrepid, so noble, so brave.”
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