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Award to Master of Steamer

THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation has awarded a binocular glass to Captain Donald Joseph MacNeil of Glasgow, master of the coastal tank steamer B.P. Distributor, for skill and seamanship in rescuing six members of the crew of the motor ship Teeswood, which sank off Dungeness on the 29th of July, 1956. For the rescue of nine other members of the Teeswood, a service which was reported in the December, 1956, number of The Life-boat, Coxswain George Tart, of Dungeness, was awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry..