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Alexander Duthie

NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHRE.—The Lifeboat Ullen Newman and John Bentley was launched on the 5th March to the aid of a small pleasure-boat, the Alexander Duthie, of Aberdeen, which had put outto sea during the morning intending to proceed to Aberdeen. There being a strong N.W. wind and a heavy sea, the boat was drifting northwards about five miles from the land, being beyond the control of her sole occupant. He was taken into the Life-boat and landed at Port Erroll..