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Two Lifeboats Rush To Assist Leaking Fishing Boat

Cowes lifeboat stands by as the fishing boat is towed by Hamble lifeboat to Cowes.

A 20-foot fishing boat which had sprung a leak became the subject of a rescue operation off Gurnard over the weekend.

First on the scene of the rescue was Hamble’s independent lifeboat, already out in the Solent on exercise, whose crew found the leak came from the engine’s coolant pipe.

The elder of the two anglers aboard was transferred to the Hamble lifeboat while his place on the fishing boat was taken by a Hamble crew member with a salvage pump.

He was then joined by a crewman from the Cowes lifeboat — launched at around 11.30am on Saturday — with water extracted via a bucket.

Eventually Hamble towed the fishing boat against a strong tide to Trinity Landing, Cowes – shadowed all the way by the Cowes lifeboat.

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