The statue was erected to commemorate the loss Fraserburgh lifeboat, the Duchess of Kent, which set off in a fierce storm to help a Danish fishing boat in January 1970.

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After a storm, they cast about in a makeshift boat, looking to see who steps out of the flooded shacks.

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Their boat is caught up in a storm and is torn apart, stranding the castaways on the island to fend for their survival.

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During the storm, he says, he used his own boat to rescue neighbors when city officials had abandoned the area.

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His boat had miraculously made it through the storm.

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As the storm struck, he watched in astonishment as a large boat washed up on his deck.

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Following a naming ceremony in spring 2014 at the RNLI headquarters in Poole, Dorset, Storm Rider will be put into service as a relief boat to be used at any of the charity's lifeboat stations as needed.

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But en route there is a terrible storm, and Pi finds himself the sole survivor in a boat.

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