Oban Lifeboat launches to aid of workboat adrift off Easdale
The Oban Lifeboat, Mora Edith Macdonald, launched on Tuesday evening (21st July 2010) to go to the aid of the 30’ workboat, JIE II, adrift off Ardencaple, South-west of Easdale with engine failure and...
View ArticleOban Lifeboat launches to aid of dive-boat
Oban lifeboat, the Mora Edith Macdonald, launched at 11.45am today, Sunday 3rd October 2010.She was off to the assistance of a dive-boat with 6 or 7 divers aboard, which had suffered engine failure...
View ArticleOban lifeboat on a yo-yo of three shouts already today
Oban Lifeboat had quite a morning of it today - Sunday 22nd July..The volunteer crew were tasked to three separate incidents within a few hours.At 9:18am to lifeboat was launched to assist the yacht...
View ArticleMora Edith Macdonald picks up a Dodger
You never do know quite what the feisty Mora Edith Macdonald will pick up next.On Monday evening – 18th February – the fishing vessel FV Dodger issued a distress call.This Dodger was less than ‘Artful’...
View ArticleJura back in the land of the googling
Reader, Robert Wakeham has just recorded the return to Google Maps of the Isle of Jura, mysteriously dematerialised weeks ago, leaving the trailing intestine of its only road, the A846, adrift of...
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Receiver of wrecks to try to find owner of bullet-riddled Crestliner
It has been confirmed by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency that the Receiver of Wrecks is to try to locate the owner of a mystery boat recovered off the Idle of Muck on 3rd July by Tobermory...
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Happy 96th Birthday to John McWhirter, 50 years serving Campbeltown lifeboat
Today is the 96th birthday of a remarkable and modest man, John McWhirter, who has served Campbeltown RNLI Lifeboat for no fewer than 50 years, is a legend warmly remembered by everyone who worked with...
View ArticleCoal boat adrift off Ireland since 1st February now tugged into the Clyde
For maritime affairs aficionados like urselves, reader, Mike Johnston, reported yesterday morning [12th February] that three tugs were just then anchoring the 175,000 tonne DW coal boat, Cape Elise,...
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Clyde RIver ferry: Business Scotland interview with CalMac’s Martin Dorchester
A generally interesting recent programme on Scotland and the shipping industry in the Business Scotland series on BBC Radio Scotland with Douglas Fraser, drew its expert interviewees from the Scottish...
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Niall Iain MacDonald NY2SY rowing challenge defeated by injury
Atlantic adventurer and BBC ALBA presenter, Niall Iain MacDonald, has had to abandon his single-handed attempt to row across the Atlantic, on a route never rowed before, from New York to his home port...
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