Loch Fyne kayak tragedy: the reality and the issues
We have been talking with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency [MCA] about this incident and the issues it has raised.With the information we have been given, it is clear that the outcome would...
View ArticleOban lifeboat on two shouts in 5 hours
After five weeks of inactivity, a period of five hours between last night and this morning – 15th December – saw Oban RNLI lifeboat launched on service twice.in the first of these, the Mora Edith...
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Fishing boat Argent still aground in Campbeltown Loch
As we reported earlier, at 2.37am on Friday 21st December, the Campbeltown Lifeboat crew were requested by Belfast Coastguard to rescue four fishermen whose vessel had run aground on Macringans Point...
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Campbeltown lifeboat on a rough shout to a burning fishing boat
The photograph above was taken in action – and although the smoke from the engine room cannot be seen, the fading light of day still shows the charring on the wheelhouse and the sea conditions – which...
View ArticleTobermory lifeboat in major rescue out in Atlantic
Yesterday, 27th January, in heavy seas out in the Atlantic seven miles west of the Isle of Coll, the Tobermory lifeboat fought for eleven hours to rescue a fishing boat adrift with a broken gear...
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Confusion over coastguard response to fishing boat grounding off Greenock
Constituents of Labour MP Iain Mackenzie – an elderly couple and their neighbour – witnessed a fishing vessel run onto the rocks near the Navy Buildings in Greenock on Thursday night [21st...
View ArticleNo Coastguard confusion over Greenock fishing boat grounding
We have had detailed clarification of the incident – on the evening of Thursday 21st March – where a fishing boat ran aground on rocks near the of the old Navy Buildings at Greenock – from the Maritime...
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Not so Adaptable: Oban Lifeboat on shout to grounded fishing boat
The Oban Lifeboat Mora Edith MacDonald, launched in the small hours yesterday – at 02:43 on Friday 5th April - to go to the aid of the fishing boat, FV Adaptable, which had gone aground at Ardtonish...
View ArticleOban lifeboat to aid of stricken fishing boat
The pagers went off at 08.24 last Friday, 19th April, for the crew of Oban Lifeboat.The fishing boat, FV Kyrene, had developed a faulty rudder, south of the Isle of Kerrera and had requested...
View ArticleSearch stood down for missing fishing boat and one man crew
[Updated 21.15] The search for the missing fishing boat and its one man crew, believed to have gone down yesterday, 25th April, in waters in the vicinity of the Slate Isles, was stood down earlier this...
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Tobermory lifeboat on night shout to distressed diver gets advantage of the...
Tobermory’s lifeboat, Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsey – a Severn Class, the largest the RNLI operate - launched just before 22.00 last night, 21st June and the Summer Solstice.She had been asked by Stornoway...
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Two very special guests for Tobermory Lifeboat Day
Tobermory Lifeboat station and its volunteer crew are now on fast countdown to Sunday 18th August – 2013 Lifeboat Day in Tobermory. They are looking forward to having two very special guests in...
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Letter of thanks for 11 hour rescue a first for Tobermory Lifeboat Station...
The RNLI’s new Chairman, Charles Hunter-Pease came to Tobermory’s annual Lifeboat Day yesterday – Sunday 18th August – to present two Coxswains with letters of appreciation for their part in the rescue...
View ArticleNew Tobermory fundraising steering group to support local lifeboat
Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsay is Tobermory’s Severn class lifeboat, the biggest in the UK and designed to be able to operate in the worst of seas – as the Tobemory lifeboat has done in an epic 11 hour shout...
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Tobermory lifeboat in early hours shout to fishing boat aground off...
Tobermory’s Severn class lifeboat, Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsey, was launched at 03.30 this morning, 24th May.A 20 metre trawler had sustained serious damage after striking rocks on the southern coastline...
View ArticleEarly start for Oban Lifeboat today
Oban Lifeboat’s volunteer crew had an early start to the day – in the small hours – when they were paged at 01.37 this morning, tasked by Stornoway Coastguard to assist a fishing vessel with engine...
View ArticleOban lifeboat launches to investigate empty canoe
This morning, 29th July, the skipper of a local fishing boat reported finding an empty canoe upside down between the islands of Insch and Kerrera.Oban RNLI lifeboat, Mora Edith Macdonald, was launched...
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Pirates lead braving of gales in £3,500 support for Tobermory Lifeboat Day
Hundreds of locals and visitors braved winds of up to Force 8 to support Tobermory’s annual Lifeboat Day – and raised more than £3500 to help Tobermory RNLI to save lives at sea.Despite the wintry...
View ArticleOban lifeboat launch to aid of yacht with prop fouled in creel buoy rope
Mora Edith MacDonald, the Oban RNLI Lifeboat, launched at 10’33 this morning [17th October 2014] to assist a 37 foot yacht which had fouled it’s propeller on creel buoy rope.When the lifeboat arrived...
View ArticleTwo shouts in 24 hours for Oban lifeboat
[Updated below] It’s been a busy 24 hours for the volunteer crew of Oban lifeboat, Mora Edith MacDonald. The first call out came at 14:30 on Thursday 11th June, when Oban Lifeboat was tasked by...
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