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A Small Boat (3)

APRIL 29TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE, AND BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At midnight on the 28th of April information was received that a small boat with one man in it, and only one oar, had been swept out of the harbour by the ebb tide. The sea was smooth, with a light north-westerly wind blowing. At 12.5 the Berwick-on-Tweed motor life-boat J. and W. was launched, and later she was joined in the search by the Eyemouth motor life-boat Frank and William Oates, which put out at 2.50. The Berwick life-boat searched to the south of the pier and Eyemouth to the north, and the latter found the boat at 6.30.

The man was none the worse for his experience, and the Eyemouth life-boat took him into Berwick. The Berwick life-boat reached her station again at 7.30 that morning, and the Eyemouth life-boat at nine o’clock.- Rewards, Eyemouth, £25 1s. ; Berwick-on- Tweed, £12 14s. 3d..