Former merchant navy captain and Montrose RNLI secretary Niall McNab

A former honorary secretary of Montrose RNLI has died at the age of 81.

Niall McNab, a former captain in the merchant navy, had a lifelong love of the sea and was awarded an MBE for his 16 years’ service to the town’s lifeboat.

Born in the village of Minard in Argyll in 1929, he was educated at Keil School in Dumbarton before joining the merchant navy when he was 16.

He married his wife Isobel, whom he had known his entire life, in 1961 at the Free Church of Scotland in Minard.

The couple went on to have two sons, Campbell and Alasdair.

Captain McNab left the merchant navy in the early 1970s to allow him more time with his young family.

In 1974 they moved to Angus, where he took a succession of sea-based jobs.

His funeral will take place on Friday at Parkgrove Crematorium at Friockheim at 1.30pm before a 3pm service at Hillside Parish Church.