13/08/2026
Lifeboat Callout
At 21:17 this evening, Thursday 13th August Girvan Lifeboat's volunteer crew were paged for immediate launch.
With our crew descending on the lifeboat station, brief information passed was that a 12m motor cruiser with 6 persons on board was taking on water near The Holy Isle at Arran, with no time to waste our crew launched our all-weather Shannon Class Lifeboat 'Elizabeth and Gertrude Allan' and were making best speed towards the casualty.
Whilst en-route further details were passed to us that Arran RNLI who were also paged were on scene with the casualty vessel and assessing the situation and communicating with the people aboard, it was requested by Belfast Coastguard that we continued to head on an intercept course.
On arrival on scene, the source of the ingress of water had been located and rectified by those on board, at this point Arran lifeboat who had been accompanying the vessel towards Troon stood down and returned to Arran, whilst we took over from Arran lifeboat and continued to shadow the casualty vessel into Troon harbour.
At Troon the vessel was handed into the care of Ayr Coastguard and we departed Troon to make the journey back to Girvan, Girvan Lifeboat was safely back in Girvan at just before midnight where the boat was washed, refuelled and made ready for the next service call.
