A wreath is to be laid in the sea off the north east coast of Scotland later to commemorate a lifeboat disaster which claimed the lives of six crew.
Six men were killed when their lifeboat capsized within sight of Fraserburgh harbour in 1953.
The ceremony will be carried out by the widow of one of the men who died.
The Fraserburgh lifeboat had been helping fishing boats back into port when it capsized in heavy seas. Only one of the seven crew members survived.
Lifeboats have operated out of Fraserburgh for 200 years and the fishing port has suffered several tragedies.
On 9 February 1953 warning rockets were fired, calling the Fraserburgh volunteers into action.
Rough seas were preventing fishing boats coming in to harbour and the lifeboat began escorting vessels to safety, but was battered by large waves.
Frances Hepburn lost her 23-year-old husband John Buchan in the tragedy.
She will go out in the present-day lifeboat to lay a wreath, along with two of her sons.
Fraserburgh has lost another seven men in two other lifeboat disasters, in 1918 and 1970.
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