by Joanne O'Brien/Format The medallists at the 1996 Presentation of Awards, pictured at Tower Bridge before the ceremony. With them are the family rescued by Little and Broad Haven's D class and the two girls plucked to safety from under the pier by Brighton's Atlantic.

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