The new vessel to serve the area’s maritime, coastal and island communitieswas piped into Oban Bay on Sunday and cheered from the shore. The Shannon class 13-50 The Campbell-Watson arrived in the bay from the north,passing the war memorial escorted by Tobermory’s Severn Class lifeboat Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsey and the Oban vessel it will replace, the Trent Class Mora Edith MacDonald. Five crew members from Oban had travelled to the RNLI’s headquarters and All-weather lifeboat centre at Poole in Dorset earlier that week to begin the passagehome via stops in Cornwall and Ireland. Coxswain Ally Cerexhe said that although Shannon class vessels can be moved byroad, the team was keen to sail their new lifeboat home. “The main reason for bringing the new lifeboat to Oban by sea was for us to get to knowit.

Source: The Times December 13, 2023 02:56 UTC