
Padstow RNLI lifeboat crew launch on Boxing Day
The volunteer lifeboat crew were paged at 8.12pm (26 December) and launched to reports of a RIB taking on water half a mile off Bude
After an extensive search by all the teams involved, the crew was stood down and returned to Padstow station at 11.10pm.
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