After a year's break from celebrating Burns Night, Porthleven & District RNLI decided to reintroduce the event for 2015.
This saw around 40 people join together at the Harbour Inn at Porthleven last Friday, to mark the birth of Scottish poet Robert Burns on January 25, 1759.
Chairman Peter Boyd did the honours of addressing the haggis, after Royal Marine Bandsman and piper Dave Gallie, dressed in full Scottish attire, had piped the haggis in.
Following a whisky toast to the haggis a themed meal followed, with traditional cock-a-leekie soup, haggis, neeps and ta'tties for main, and Cranachan for pudding.
Describing the dinner as “superb”, Jean Howard, from the RNLI branch, said: “Our congratulations went to the chef for giving us such a feast.”
Between courses there were readings of some of Burns' poems and afterwards Mr Boyd told the guests about the poet's life.
There were also more performances from Mr Gallie on the bagpipes.
Tickets were sold for a raffle drawn that evening, with the first prize appropriately being a bottle of whisky.
The evening raised £304.50, all of which will go to the RNLI to help save lives at sea.
Mrs Howard added: “Our thanks go to all who helped to make the evening such a success, especially all at the Harbour Inn and those who attended the evening.”
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