TWO 14-year-old Scottish sea cadets who rescued a friend from the choppy waters of Campbeltown Loch are to receive special awards for their actions from the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

The boys, Ian Campbell of Cruachan, Askomil, and Malcolm Stewart of Gallon Avenue, Campbeltown, who saved fellow cadet, 16-year-old Duncan Haddow, following the capsizing of a canoe on 9th July last year, are to each receive a wristwatch commemorating the rescue.

This took place after a boy raised the alarm by running to people alongside the beach shouting that a canoe had capsized and was drifting down the Loch. Ian Campbell, who knew that Haddow was out in a friend's canoe, saw it empty and drifting towards Trench Point.

Taking the initiative, Ian decided to take out the sea cadet motor launch moored nearby.

He ran to the other cadet, Michael Stewart, and together they paddled out to the 16-foot motor boat. They started her up and headed for the canoe. As they neared Trench Point they saw the missing canoeist floating in his lifejacket.

They manoeuvred alongside and with difficulty got him aboard still conscious, but suffering badly from cold and exposure after his ordeal of nearly an hour in the water.

Tan and Michael are to be commended on their quick thinking and prompt actions, which undoubtedly saved Duncan Haddow's life', commented an R.N.L.I, official.

No Thanks 'The work of the life-boats today is taken for granted, and when some survivors have been brought ashore there is not a word of thanks.

Some are downright rude. They think the services of the life-boat come with their National Health stamp.'—Mr. Arthur W. Dick, Bridlington's honorary secretary.

OUT-OR IN? Snippet from the secretary of the ladies' lifeboat guild at Arbroath, Scotland: Lady collector rings bell and small boy answers, saying: 'My Ma's no in'.

Lady collector: 'Well, perhaps I could come back. When would she be in?' Small boy (turning round into the house]: 'Ma, the woman says when will you be in?".