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Hundreds share their grief 20 years after Piper Alpha disaster
A lone piper provided a moving soundtrack for what was an emotionally charged ceremony shared by hundreds of grieving loved ones of those who perished on Piper Alpha.Following an earlier service in the Kirk of St Nicholas around 400 people gathered in the city’s Hazlehead Park despite an overcast Aberdeen sky.
There, chaplain to the oil and gas industry the Rev Andrew Jolly addressed the crowd as he stood in front of the Piper Alpha memorial sculpture depicting three oil workers.
He read a prayer of remembrance saying: “Let us remember before God, and commend to his safe keeping those who died in the Piper Alpha disaster; those whom we knew and whose memory we treasure.”
Mr Jolly and the Rev Fred Coutts, head of spiritual care for NHS Grampian, then read aloud the names of the 167 who died 20 years ago.
Full story at the Aberdeen Press & Journal.
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