Training interrupted to assist broken down motorboat
Swanage's Shannon class all weather lifeboat was afloat for its regular Wednesday night training session when a call came in from the UK Coastguard.
The volunteers were actually in the middle of a towing exercise with a local angling boat so this was stopped and best speed was made to the casualty's last known position.
Once on scene two volunteer crewmembers were put aboard the casualty vessel, the towline was passed across and the trainees were able to continue their training and get the boat under tow.
A course was plotted for Poole Harbour and the casualty was secured to a mooring off Brownsea Island just after 10.30pm. The lifeboat was then released to return to Swanage.
ALB Crew: (Coxn) Dave Turnbull, Darren Tomes, Roydon Woodford, Duncan Youngs, Fergus Holley, Ben Bamber, Jamie Trumper
Shore Crew: (Head Launcher) Gary Buglass, (Winchman) Luke Kill, Morgan Woodford, Nigel Bower, Julian Vass
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