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Aberdeen: on Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D Class Inflatable Lifeboat

Aberdeen: On Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Stuart Durno and Crew Members James Ferguson and Allan Charles, launched to the aid of a youth stranded on cliffs inaccessible from the land. When the lifeboat arrived, firemen lowered the boy from the pinnacle of a rock to its base, from where Crew Member Charles, having swum about five yards through swell to the shore, carried him back through shallow waters to the lifeboat (above).

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