ISLAY
ISLAY’S RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew helped evacuate a fisherman who became unwell from a scallop boat.
All-weather lifeboat Helmut Schroder of Dunlossit 11 launched at 1.05pm on Saturday May 12 to join a coastguard rescue helicopter tasked with air-lifting the sick crew member off the boat at the north end of the Sound of Islay. The lifeboat arrived on scene at 1.20pm and the fisherman was safely evacuated and taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow.