Padstow and Newquay RNLI volunteers bring charter passengers to safety
Newquay's RNLI lifeboat volunteers were paged at 8.28pm on Friday 31 July and worked with colleagues from Padstow Lifeboat for the second time in two days, to assist a charter vessel which had suffered engine failure five miles south of Trevose Head.
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