A RNLI crew had a date with an old lifeboat when they answered a Mayday.
The crew based at Tobermory on the isle of Mull went to the rescue of a motor yacht that had lost power in Loch Sunart.
It turned out the converted yacht had served as a Liverpool Class lifeboat
based at Flamborough Head.
Launched in 1932, it was one of the last lifeboats to have been powered by engines, oars and sails.
Two people were on board when it lost power, on Sunday, close to the shore of the island of Oronsay.
A RIB which had also answered the Mayday, had secured the yacht
alongside and the lifeboat crew then towed it to Tobermory.
The crew's trip down memory lane didn't end there though. The Easter holiday weekend saw award winning crime writer Alex Gray, visiting the lifeboat station.
The author's grandfather, Alexander Noble, was the Coxswain of the first Tobermory lifeboat, Sir Arthur Rose, in 1938.
Miss Gray was in Tobermory to launch her latest novel, Keep the Midnight Out, which is set on Mull and organised a raffle, with the winner getting a character named after him in her next book.
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