Bereaved Scots Dad says new rescue boat will help heartbroken families find closure

A father whose daughter's body was recovered from the River Clyde by a rescue charity has said a new rescue boat will help other families such as his find closure.

The Glasgow Humane Society's (GHS) new £20,000 rescue boat is fitted with GPS search equipment enabling the crew to mark any submerged object found.

It also has a drop-down bow to assist with rescues and recoveries.

Gordon Goldie joined the society - which was founded in 1790 and describes itself as the world's oldest life-saving organisation - after they found the body of his missing daughter.

Undated handout photo issued by Glasgow Humane Society Gordon Goldie with his daughter Sarah. father whose daughter's body was recovered from the River Clyde by a rescue charity has said a new rescue boat will help other families such as his find closure. The GHS new £20,000 rescue boat is fitted with GPS search equipment enabling the crew to mark any submerged object found. Issue date: Sunday May 30, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story SCOTLAND Rescue. Photo credit should read: Glasgow Humane Society/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder. (Glasgow Humane Society/PA Wire)

Now GHS vice-chairman, he said: "The Glasgow Humane Society recovered our 18-year-old daughter Sarah's body from the Clyde after she went missing in 2016.

"You can't accept what has happened until you get closure and we couldn't get closure until Sarah was brought home.

"An hour was like a day and a day like a week at that time and in the end the wait for us was four weeks.

"When she was returned to us it was a great feeling of relief and we couldn't have been more grateful to the charity."

He said the new boat will "dramatically improve how the GHS does this job for families facing the same tragic circumstances as we did".

The new boat will be named "Lede," after the bomb-sniffer dog owned by the boat operator, GHS officer William Graham.

RETRANSMITTED ADDING EMBARGO EMBARGOED TO 0001 MONDAY MAY 31 Undated handout photo issued by Glasgow Humane Society of GHS rescuer William Graham with bomb-sniffing dog Lede in Afghanistan. Gordon Goldie whose daughter's body was recovered from the River Clyde by a rescue charity has said a new rescue boat will help other families such as his find closure. The GHS new £20,000 rescue boat is fitted with GPS search equipment enabling the crew to mark any submerged object found. Issue date: Monday May 31, 2021. PA Photo. The new boat will be named "Lede," after the bomb-sniffer dog owned by the boat operator, GHS officer William Graham. See PA story SCOTLAND Rescue. Photo credit should read: Glasgow Humane Society/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder. (Glasgow Humane Society/PA Wire)

Mr Graham adopted the dog when he left the Army after they served together in Afghanistan. Lede, a black Labrador, worked with him on the river until he died last year.

Mr Graham said: "It's very important to be able to help search for someone and return them to their family and this new boat is a step change in how we do that."