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Kirkwall Grammar School

Michael Forsyth, a pupil of Kirkwall Grammar School, hands over a cheque for £78.80 to Captain M. S. Work, honorary secretary of Kirkwall lifeboat station, on board the 70ft Clyde class lifeboat, Grace Paterson Ritchie. The money was raised by pupils of the school taking part in a sponsored walk to the remains of the SS Irene, grounded on the night that Longhope lifeboat was lost with all hands while responding to her distress call..

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