Boat ferrying sheep capsizes in Loch Linnhe
Loch Linnhe and Morvern TWO shepherds were thrown into the water on the afternoon of Friday February 1 2013 after their boat capsized on Loch Linnhe, while moving sheep between the mainland and Shuna...
View ArticleSearch underway for man missing near Loch Awe
Coastguards and mountain rescue teams search the shores of Loch Awe for the missing man. Photo courtesy Kevin McGlynn Strathclyde Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was reported missing in...
View ArticleFisherman dies in hospital after boat sinks off Harris
Photo: MRC A fisherman has died in hospital after the fishing boat he and two other crewmen were in sank rapidly off the west coast of Harris, Western Isles, on February 21 2013. The three, all from...
View ArticleFishermen rescued off Skye after boat hits rocks
Three crew were rescued from their life raft after their prawn trawler hit the rocks at Point of Sleat, off southern Skye, early on the morning of Monday March 18 2013. Stornoway Coastguard received...
View ArticleSearch for missing fisherman off Easdale scaled down
The surface search and rescue vessels looking for a fisherman missing off Easdale Island since Thursday April 25 have been stood down. But the Coastguard is continuing to co-ordinate search efforts...
View ArticleCoastguard team leaders
COASTGUARD team leaders from Argyll and the Islands took part in a series of search and rescue exercises in Oban, Dunstaffnage and Ganavan Sands last weekend. Subjects included scuba diver emergencies,...
View ArticleCommunity responds to major incident on Mull
A road traffic accident involving two coaches on the narrow single-track road near to Pennyghael on the Ross of Mull saw three casualties taken to hospital. The community on Mull have been praised by...
View ArticleCrew member flown 230 miles after injury
A long-range rescue has been carried out to fly a crewman to hospital after he suffered an injury on board a fishing vessel more than 230 nautical miles from Stornoway. A call came into the UK...
View ArticleOban Coastguard team raise £5,000 from marathon walk
A team of Oban Coastguard volunteers have completed a marathon walk in memory of colleague Ali MacNab. Ali, a long-serving member of the Oban Coastguard Rescue Team, died in January last year aged 48...
View ArticleRescue sparks call for emergency tug on West Coast
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar leader Roddie Mackay has called upon the UK Government to reinstate the West Coast-based tug after yet another incident took place last night (Thursday December 14). An...
View ArticleFreighter emergency sparks call for tug reinstatement
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar leader councillor Roddie Mackay has called on the UK government to re-instate the West Coast-based tug after another incident last Thursday night. An emergency tug had to make...
View Article‘Fantastic’ Tarbert response in search for fishermen
A coastguard area commander has praised the civilian boat skippers and crews, assisting the maritme search for two missing Tarbert fishermen. Jonathan Hart said that last night, at about 6pm, fishing...
View Article‘Fantastic’ Tarbert response in search for fishermen
A coastguard area commander has praised the civilian boat skippers and crews, assisting the maritme search for two missing Tarbert fishermen. Jonathan Hart said that last night, at about 6pm, fishing...
View ArticleMan falls nine metres onto rocks in Calgary Bay
A young man was airlifted by helicopter after falling nine metres onto rocks at Calgary Bay on the Isle of Mull on Sunday. Tobermory, Craignure and Ross of Mull Coastguard Rescue Teams were called to...
View ArticleCoastguard volunteers walk in Ali’s memory
Oban Coastguard volunteers were due to set off on a two-day walk to Skye today, Thursday September 6, in memory of colleague Ali MacNab who died from cancer. The team will walk from Pulpit Hill to...
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Coastguard team walks to Skye for Ali
PreviousNext Coastguard volunteers went the extra mile on a walk to Skye in memory of a colleague who died from cancer. The group from Oban left Pulpit Hill on Thursday morning and arrived at...
View ArticleTexas rescue centre helps with airlift of Lochaber pensioner
A pensioner who lives alone in a remote forest cabin near Loch Treig, some 13 miles from Fort William, was airlifted to hospital by a Coastguard rescue helicopter on Sunday night after his distress...
View ArticleTobermory RNLI in multi-vessel search for missing diver
Following a ‘Mayday’ distress call at 2.25pm on Wednesday (February 20), Tobermory RNLI’s Severn class all weather lifeboat, Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsey, was launched in search of a missing diver. On...
View ArticleOban lifeboat launches in hunt for missing divers
Duo found safe and well not long after crew arrived on the scene. The post Oban lifeboat launches in hunt for missing divers appeared first on The Oban Times.
View ArticleCliff faller requires lifeboat rescue
Awkward rescue on the Isle of Kerrera sees RNLI and coastguard crews team up The post Cliff faller requires lifeboat rescue appeared first on The Oban Times.
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