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Looking Back â news from the John O Groat Journal of yesteryear By Staff Reporter Published: 09:46, 10 January 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day s newspaper Stricken crew rescued by Scarfskerry rocket company From the Groat of January 7, 1921 The SS Kentucky, of Copenhagen, had been carrying goods and mails on a voyage from Copenhagen to Boston, USA, when it ran ashore at Skirza Head, Freswick. At the time the sea was too rough for reaching the vessel with a boat, and it increased during the night. But about midnight the rocket apparatus crew from Scarfskerry, along with the divisional officer of coastguards from Dunnet Head, arrived on the scene. ....