While it's been a quiet month for shipping passing up and down the Sound, there was some excitement at the beginning of the month when this ship, the
Red Duchess, lost power to the north of us, close to Rhum. She was towed off the island by the Mallaig lifeboat - spectacular video footage from the RNLI
here - and then taken in tow by the
Anglian Prince, the Coastguard tug the Government is currently planning to axe. Please join the Diary in writing to our MP, Charles Kennedy, who is actively opposing this short-sighted cut.
The main feature in the Sound has been the number of Irish fishing boats that have been passing through. This is the
Eilean Croine S238, whose home port is Castletownbere in County Cork. She's a herring fisher, the 'S' in her registration standing for her registration port, Skibbereen.
This is
Sparkling Star, D437, a Dublin-registered trawler fishing for herring and mackerel.
And this neat red trawler, seen here passing the Tobermory creel boat
Jacobite, is the
Dillon Owen, S24. She's relatively new, having been built in 2007, and is 23m long and registered 224 tonnes. There are better pictures of her
here.
Finally, on the 15th the Diary took this photo by the slipway. A couple of days later,
Arctic Tern had had a blue cover fitted. Soon afterwards she disappeared. Nice boat.
While it's been a quiet month for shipping passing up and down the Sound, there was some excitement at the beginning of the month when this ship, the Red Duchess, lost power to the north of us, close to Rhum. She was towed off the island by the Mallaig lifeboat - spectacular video footage from the RNLI here - and then taken in tow by the Anglian Prince, the Coastguard tug the Government is currently planning to axe. Please join the Diary in writing to our MP, Charles Kennedy, who is actively opposing this short-sighted cut.
The main feature in the Sound has been the number of Irish fishing boats that have been passing through. This is the Eilean Croine S238, whose home port is Castletownbere in County Cork. She's a herring fisher, the 'S' in her registration standing for her registration port, Skibbereen.
This is Sparkling Star, D437, a Dublin-registered trawler fishing for herring and mackerel.
And this neat red trawler, seen here passing the Tobermory creel boat Jacobite, is the Dillon Owen, S24. She's relatively new, having been built in 2007, and is 23m long and registered 224 tonnes. There are better pictures of her here.
Finally, on the 15th the Diary took this photo by the slipway. A couple of days later, Arctic Tern had had a blue cover fitted. Soon afterwards she disappeared. Nice boat.
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