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A 39-year-old man has drowned after a small rowing boat capsized off one of the Orkney Islands. | |
William Tait, of Meadowbank, Kirkwall, fell into the bay of St Margaret's Hope at South Ronaldsay on Monday night. | |
A spokesman for Northern Constabulary said Mr Tait died at the scene, but two other men who were also in the boat managed to swim to safety. | |
The two men who reached shore were taken to Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall suffering from hypothermia. | |