Top grunt for petrolheads as BBC ALBA hits the road
Jeremy Clarkson? So yesterday. BBC ALBA’s Air an Rathad / On the Road 8-part series is on the road again.This is high octane fuel specifically for the Highlands and Islands and we get machines,...
View ArticleYeoman Bontrup on way to Amsterdam
Off on her first working trip – Yeoman Bontrup loaded at Glensanda and is on her way to Amsterdam with an ETA of 03.00 on 12th April.Having moved frm her mooring into the berth at Glensanda yesterday,...
View ArticleGlensanda superquarry: a world beyond imagining
(Update 30th April – Yeoman Bontrup: the fire and the recovery - linked below, with added photographs.) On Thursday 26th April Yeoman Glensanda hosted an extraordinary day of celebration of the...
View ArticleYeoman Bontrup: the fire and the recovery
Given just how enormous was the damage done to this ship in the fire she suffered back on 2nd July 2010, it was surprising to many that she was rebuilt instead of being replaced.While the figures vary,...
View ArticleMV Fri Ocean back in Argyll waters and not on Mull shores
The cargo ship, MV Fri Ocean whose last ‘contact’ with Argyll was her extraordinary grounding on Calve Island at the entrance to Tobermory Bay on the Isle of Mull in the small hours of Friday 14th June...
View ArticleOban Lifeboat on medevac to Glensanda quarry
The Oban RNLI Lifeboat Mora Edith MacDonald was tasked by Stornoway Coastguard to medevac an adult male who was suffering chest pains from Glensanda Quarry at 1:50am this morning.The lifeboat left Oban...
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