SINGING IN CHOIR AT 84.
REMARKABLE MAN. About 6000 people attended a mass service at Southsea Castle on August 24. In the Male Choir of 400 voices was Mr. Joseph Preston Cribb, of Portsmouth, who is eighty-four, and whose reappearance in a choir coincides with his diamond wedding. Mr. Cribb is the only survivor of six divers selected by the Admiralty for salving the Eurydiee, which foundered off the Isle of Wight in 1878. In his early days he served as carpenter in the Chinese Navy, and took part in the suppression of the Chinese rebellion in 1863. For many years Mr. Cribb worked in the Portsmouth Dockyard. He invented an apparatus for stopping holes in warships.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 October 1924, Page 5
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117SINGING IN CHOIR AT 84. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 October 1924, Page 5
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