"BRAVEST DEED OF 1918."
i | FISHERMAN'S NOTABLE ACT. I For the " bravest deed of the year" the I Stanhope Gold Medal and £5 have been I awarded by the Royal Humane Society to I Hugh L. Ritchie, a fisherman, of GourI don, Fife. The story of his heroism was . related as follows :—
On the early morning of October 9 lest I the fishing boat Grace was at sea and four ! miles from Gourdon, going fire and a half i knots, the sea being rough and the I weather dull and threatening. I Without warning a huge wave broke over the boat, washing one of the crew overboard. When the water cleared the I man ■was seen Borne distance to windward.
Ritchie, fully clothed and wearing heavy boots, at once sprang in and, reaching him, kept him afloat for nearly half an hour, when the boat was brought round and both hauled on board in an exhausted Stat*.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17151, 3 May 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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