Huna Lifeboat Station

Following application from local residents, and the subsequent visit, report and recommendation by Rear-Admiral John R. Ward, RNLI Inspector of Lifeboats, it was decided at the meeting of the RNLI committee of management on 5 June 1877, to establish a lifeboat station, and place a lifeboat at Huna, on the north coast of Scotland. At a further meeting on 2 August 1877, it was announced that the sum of £550 had been received from an anonymous donor from Manchester, known as "X.Y.Z.", to defray the cost of the lifeboat at Huna, in thanks for a child, rescued on 6 August 1873. At the donor's request, the boat was to be named W. M. C. Contributions were received locally towards the estimated…