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Rugby

Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At 12.43 early on the morning of the 1st of February, 1955, the coastguard tele- phoned that a trawler had run on the rocks at Inverallochy. At 1.12 the life- boat The Duchesx of Kent was launched.

There was a moderate swell and a fresh southerly breeze, and the tide was flood- ing. The life-boat found the steam trawler Rugby, of Leith, with a crew of twelve, three quarters of a mile south- east of Cairnbulg beacon. The life- boat ran out a kedge anchor and took | the trawler in tow to prevent her from being driven further ashore. The llugby refloated a little later, and went on her way to Aberdeen. The life-boat re- turned to her station, arriving at 3.34.

—Property Salvage Case..