Fisherman honoured for saving colleague’s life
A Fraserburgh fishing trawlerman who fought a life and death battle to save a fellow crewman from bleeding to death after a horror accident 50 miles out in the North Sea is to receive a top national life-saving honour.
Charles McDonald, 45, from Rosehearty in Fraserburgh, has been awarded a Royal Humane Society certificate of commendation for his fight to save the life of Paul Buchan, 22, after his leg was severed in an accident with a tow rope.