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A Life-Boat Race In 1867

From a print in the possession of Mr. J. E. Hooper. Hon. Secretary of the Natural History Museum and Antiquarian Society of Penzance. The race was in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, between the Life-boats stationed at St. Ives, Sennen.

Penzance, Porthleven, Hayle and Mullion. and took place at the Inaugural Ceremony of the new Mullion Life-boat Daniel J' Draper, built out of a fund raised by the Methodist Recorder in memory of the Rev. D. J. Draper, who was drowned ID the wreck of the London in the Bay of Biscay..