ISLAY’S all-weather lifeboat crew saved a 1,300 ton live-fish vessel with engine failure.
In the recent rescue, which took place at at 10.23pm, the lifeboat, Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit, was requested by Belfast Coastguard to go to the aid of the 57 Ronja Viking.
It had suffered main engine failure within the Sound of Islay and was drifting northwards on a flood tide.