A D class Mark IV Zodiac lifeboat with twin outboard engines funded bv a gift in memory of Stella Ruthven- Sluart was handed over at St Abbs on April 4, 1981. and her boathouse was officiallv opened. The rebuilding cost of the boathouse was defrayed partly by a gift in memory of Dick Adamson and partly by a bequest from Mrs Marv W. Nisbet in memory of her husband Alexander Nisbet who for 31 ears was honorary secretary of St Abbs lifeboat station branch..