Celebrations are taking place on one of the world's most remote islands, as the last ship ever built in Aberdeen prepares for its final voyage.

RMS St Helena leaves the tiny island of St Helena off the African coast on Saturday, after serving as the community's only link to the wider world for nearly 30 years.

It was built at the end of the 1980's, when Aberdeen's shipbuilding industry ended.

Jessica Williams from Aberdeen Maritime Museum said: "Aberdeen's ship building industry was already in decline and Hall, Russel and Company that built St Helena was the last of the shipyards to exist in Aberdeen.

"It was actually during the building of the St Helena that they ran into financial difficulties and were bought over by another company which then finished the St Helena."

Former shipyard worker Gavin Lord said: "Things were being scaled back at that time, I think there were only about 300 manual employees and the ship repair site was still on going, but people were obviously thinking about their jobs.

"It was a huge scale shipyard - there were times that they were building two ships at the same time, and repairs in the dry dock as well.

"It's actually quite a thought to think that now there are not going to be any ships that I helped to work on, or any other ships that came from that yard."