Drifting Yacht Requests Lifeboat Assistance
UK Coastguard's Humber Operations tasked Newbiggin RNLI's Atlantic 85 lifeboat 'Richard Wake Burdon' at 14.30 today to go to the assistance of a drifting yacht east of Church Point.
Arriving at the casualty just ten minutes after launching, the four volunteer lifeboat crew made contact with the casualty yacht, who's crew assured them that they were all safe and would require a tow north to Amble. A tow was secured by the lifeboat and with a volunteer lifeboat crewmember on the casualty vessel the slow tow north was begun.
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