Byline: The volunteer crew onboard the Alderney RNLI Trent class lifeboat Roy Barker I was launched at 10.00am on Friday, 31st May 2013, to assist in the search for a missing person.

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The search was started after a yacht was reported as unmanned and adrift 8 miles north – north west of Alderney.  The French yacht was boarded by two crew members of the Alderney lifeboat, who searched the vessel and confirmed the yacht to be unmanned.  The vessel was then sailed to Braye Harbour in Alderney. 

A full search of the area was carried out by the Alderney lifeboat, a French Lifeboat, Channel Island Air Search and a French air craft.  The Roy Barker I continued to search the area until they were stood down at 5.33pm by CROSSMA, the French Coastguard station who co-ordinated the incident.  The whereabouts of the person is still unknown.

A spokesperson for the Alderney Harbour Office said;

‘Guernsey police have now released the vessel to the French authorises for investigation.’

RNLI contacts

For more information please contact Joanna Parmentier, Alderney RNLI Station Deputy Lifeboat Press Officer on 01481 824355 or mobile 07911 72336
e-mail: joanna_parmentier@hotmail.com

 

Byline: The sloop Swiftwind was sailing well at sea but, although the engine ran smoothly when turned on, the propeller would not move so there was no means of propulsion.

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She was due to enter Fowey Harbour at about 1am this morning (Saturday 1 June) but would have been unable to manoeuvre at all due to fickle wind conditions with the wind coming directly from the harbour mouth.

Brixham Coastguard decided the most sensible action was to ask for the Fowey RNLI lifeboat to be launched while Swiftwind was still at sea and tow her in safely. The volunteer crew launched last night at around 10.40pm. 

The skipper said afterwards;

‘It was very decent of them to all turn out, we had nowhere to go.’

The lifeboat was back on station at 12.15am this morning.

RNLI noted to editors

Please find attached a library picture of the Fowey Trent class all-weather lifeboat at sea. Credit RNLI/Fowey. 

RNLI media contacts
For more information please contact Cath Ellis, volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer for Fowey RNLI on 07969 693218.  Other RNLI media contacts include Tamsin Thomas, RNLI Public Relations Manager, on 07786 668847 or email Tamsin_Thomas@rnli.org.uk

 For urgent calls out of hours please contact the Duty RNLI Press Officer on 01202 336789.