A total of 130 years of voluntary service to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was celebrated recently at Stornoway lifeboat as six members were awarded RNLI long service badges.
Coxswain DI Murray, along with volunteer crew members Tony Morrison, Kenny Macarthur, Norman Smith, and Donnie Mackinnon, have each served 20 years.
Lifeboat operations manager, John Macdonald, has clocked up 30 years.
Stornoway RNLI branch chair John J Maclennan said it was a privilege to present the long service badges.
He said: “There is no abiding success without commitment and dedication, and without that commitment and dedication the lifeboat won’t launch – it is the glue that holds the fabric together.
“There is a great tradition in Stornoway lifeboat of crew coming down through the generations; that continuity and experience being handed down, and the ongoing commitment of crew even after twenty years, it is something as a station we can all be proud of.”
John Macdonald praised the crew. He said: “This is an amazing achievement and it is down to their commitment and dedication to both the service and the Stornoway station itself.”
Stornoway RNLI celebrate 130 years of volunteer crew services
25 February 2020
John J Maclennan presents John Macdonald with his award