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A Gallant Salcombe Boy

THE Institution has awarded an in- scribed wrist-watch and a framed letter of thanks to twelve-year-old Michael Dornom, of Salcombe, Devon, who saved the life of a seaman in a south- westerly gale on the 17th of September, 1950. The seaman was coming ashore in an outboard motor boat, when a sudden squall capsized it and threw him into the harbour, in his seaboots and oilskins. Michael Dornom was in a motor boat, with a visitor. He heard the man's cries, went at once to his help, and was just in time to haul him into his boat before he sank..