Mr. George F. Shee, secretary of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, 2.x., Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, were due to visit the Orkneys and Shetlands at the end of June, to present a bronze medal awarded to the coxswain of the Stromness motor lifeboat for a fine service performed at the beginning of the year. The lifeboat was out for nine hours and travelled 50 miles in a heavy gale, rescuing two men off a Grimsby trawler.
Bronze medals were also awarded to five fishermen of Ecaw, on the Island of Whalsey, in the Shetlands, who saved an American ship and all her crew from certain destruction.
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