Type Service medal Status Currently awarded | Awarded for Meritorious service Established 2013 | |
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Description Nickel-silver, 36mm diameter | ||
The Merchant Navy Medal for Meritorious Service is a state award in the within the British honours system. The medal is awarded to no more than 20 recipients annually with the awards being announced on Merchant Navy Day, September 3.
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Criteria
The medal may be awarded to those individuals who have served, or are serving in the Merchant Navy or the Fishing fleets of the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. These individuals must have show particularly valuable devotion to duty and exemplary service so as to serve as an outstanding example to others. Recipients will typically have given 20 years of good conduct and exemplary service. Annually, only 20 medals will be awarded.
Appearance
The obverse of the medal bears the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty The Queen. The reverse depicts the badge of the Merchant Navy: the letters MN surrounded by a rope joined at the base by a reef knot, a naval crown surmounts the rope. The ribbon of the medal is 1 1⁄2 inches (38 mm) wide made up of equal stripes of green at the edges, white in the centre, with red bordering the white stripe.