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Buoybles, not Baubles at Stromness RNLI

Lifeboats News Release

Stromness RNLI volunteer crew and Ladies' Guild worked together to install a Christmas tree with a difference.

A night view, from on high of Stromness Lifeboat Station showing two, illuminated trees

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Christmas at Stromness Lifeboat Stattion
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Alongside the traditional town Christmas tree this year, the volunteers of Stromness RNLI crew and members of the Ladies' Guild have built an enormous Christmas tree entirely out of creels.

A local electrician - RS Merriman - donated the lights and the entire tree has been decorated with orange creel buoys.

Local people and businesses have donated to sponsor the buoys, and each one has been inscribed with the donor's business name or in memory of a local person, in many cases one who had served the lifeboat.

The creels and buoys were chosen to remind everyone of Stromness's close association with the sea and fishing - the dependence we have on the lifeboat and her crew, and our gratitude to them.

RNLI Media Contacts: Richard Clubley, Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer for Stromness RNLI, [email protected]

Richard Smith, RNLI Regional Communications Manager for Scotland, 07826 900639, [email protected]

Martin Macnamara, RNLI Regional Communications Lead for Scotland, 07920 365929, [email protected]

RNLI Press Office, 01202 336789, [email protected]

Illuminated tree of creels with crew standing in front

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Stromness crew with creel Christmas tree
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Richard Clubley
Lifeboat Press Officer, Stromness

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