Memorial statue unveiled to remember lives lost off Scotland's north mainland coast

A new memorial statue was unveiled on Saturday in the town of Wick (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Ùige) in the north of Scotland. Designed by Scottish sculptor Alan Beattie Herriott, the figure represents the sea with one hand raised holding a haddock and the other pointing down to bronze plaques below. The Seafarers Memorial in Wick commemorates deaths associated with boats with the town's WK registration and coastal communities linked to the registration stretch from Portmahomack in Easter Ross to Talmine in Sutherland.  Names on the memorial include those of 37 fishermen who died during bad weather at Wick in August 1848. Wick charity Seafarers Memorial Group raised more than £100,000 to erect the bronze statue at the town's Braehead.

Image: Seafarers Memorial image courtesy of BBC Scotland