Friday morning call out for Withernsea RNLI

Once Withernsea's inshore lifeboat, Henley Eight, had launched they located the casualty nearly 2 miles away from their last given position with help from crew within the lifeboat station who were looking on through binoculars.

Once alongside the casualty vessel, a tow was established from the lifeboat and the 45 minute journey back to Withernsea began.

Misty Blue and her crew of 2 were landed safely back at Withernsea just before 11:30am.

Volunteer crewman Steve Roebuck said: 'Today was a good example that a call can come whenever. Fishing conditions were perfect, flat calm seas, sun shining but the fishermen still found themselves in trouble.

'We train twice a week for every eventuality and today we needed our shore crew to help guide us towards the casualty vessel as they had drifted since their last given position. As a team we worked very effectively and the outcome was great.'

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