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The Sailing Cutter Margaret

Cromarty.—At 11.34 on the night of the 14th of May, 1951, the coastguard reported that the sailing cutter Mar- garet, with thirteen boys and one officer from the Moray Firth Sea School on board, was overdue. She had last been seen between five and six miles west- north-west of Burghead. A later mes- sage said she was all right and making for Burghead; but at 4.54 next morning the coastguard telephoned that she was still missing, and that aeroplanes had been asked to search. At 5.25 the life-boat James Macfee was launched in a rough sea, with a light westerly breeze blowing. She found the cutter off Balintore and towed her to Cromarty harbour, reaching her station again at 11.15.—Rewards, £9 6s..