Emergency’s are no respecter of national holidays. The Oban RNLI lifeboat, Mora Edith Macdonald, was called out on Christmas evening at 7.40 PM to help get a male patient from the island of Kerrera across the bay to the mainland.
The…
The consultation period on Ofcom’s proposals for a massive hike in its prices for marine and aeronautical VHF transmission came to an end on 30th October.
As For Argyll reported at the time, the change in pricing strategy Ofcom proposed would…
Oban Lifeboat - the Mora Edith MacDonald - was tasked for an emergency dash to Mull this evening (19th December 2008). An ambulance that had gone over to Mull on the ferry to bring a sick patient from Dunaros Hospital…
Last night, 27th November 2008, a fishing boat suffering from engine failure requested assistance from Oban lifeboat.
The fishing boat had been under tow from a fellow fishing boat but the tow had repeatedly parted because conditions were poor.
Oban lifeboat…
Oban Lifeboat first launched in the small hours - 01.30 - on Saturday 1st November to go to the rescue of a yacht that, in the dark, had got amongst the warps of marker buoys of creel fishermen and had…
Last night (Wednesday 29th October) Portree Lifeboat received reports of lights in the water in Staffin Bay in Skye. Fearing a capsize or a floundering liferaft from an emergency out to sea, the lifeboat launched.
There was indeed a wallowing hulk…
Oban Lifeboat launched on Tuesday 28th October to go over to the Marina on the Isle of Kerrera to take off a resident who had become ill during the night. The Lifeboat took two paramedics from the Scottish Ambulance Service…
Clyde coastguard received reports of a vessel adrift near Fort William on Saturday (25th October). There were gale force conditions at the time but the owner of the vessel was known to be attempting to reach it nevertheless. As a…
The storms currently being experienced on the west coast of Scotland are inevitably causing problems for shipping. A Russian ship, the Mekhanik Semakov, with a cargo of timber broke down off the Isle of Skye on Wednesday morning and started…
Two people were reported to be in the water off Dunstaffnage when their dinghy capsized last Saturday. Oban Lifeboat went to the scene to find that the boat and one person had been recovered by a work boat in the…
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