Newbiggin lifeboat rescues stranded fishing boat with safe recovery
On Thursday 30 July, Newbiggin RNLI recovered a stranded fishing boat after the vessel suffered steering failure.
The call came in around noon today from the UK Coastguard Humber Operations Centre who had received a report of a stranded 8m fishing boat at the River Wansbeck estuary. The two occupants of the vessel had climbed out of the vessel and were on the beach nearby.
Shortly afterwards Newbiggin's Atlantic 85 B class lifeboat Richard Wake Burdon with four volunteer crew on board launched from the beach and headed south to the casualty position. Once on scene the lifeboat towed the vessel off the beach and then it was brought to a mooring in the river.
Throughout the incident a team from Newbiggin Coastguard provided coordination from the shore as well as providing valuable assistance in the refloating operation. They received the casualty at the river mooring where safety advice was given.
Today’s call is the third one so far this month with earlier calls to overdue persons.
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