Children from Bowmore Primary School’s P1-P4 Gaelic classes visited Islay’s RNLI lifeboat station last Thursday, June 28.
The youngsters were welcomed by David MacArthur, chief mechanic, and Mark Scott, relief coxswain, and shown videos illustrating the work lifeboat volunteer crews do – not only rescuing people from the water or their boats but dogs and even sheep stranded round the coastline.
There was a demonstration of how the sophisticated RNLI lifejacket should be worn and inflated, with Miss MacPhee acting as model.