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Eight hour service for grounded fishing vessel
The Kirkwall RNLI Lifeboat rescued three men and the "New Venture - K 112" from rocks off Eday in strong tides and swell on Nov 26, 2014. The Shetland Coastguard paged for Kirkwall to launch at 3:57 p.m. when a vessel called for assistance when she had run aground in strong tides. The Kirkwall lifeboat "Margaret Foster" departed station at 4:03 p.m. and arrived near the casualty at 4:26 p.m. to find it had gone aground on Seal skerry off Eday and was lying over to one side with the tide pushing her onto the rocks. The inflatable Y-boat was launched at 4:35 p.m. to go into the shallow water to investigate. As the boat was not taking water at this time it was decided to leave the three crew aboard to monitor the condition of the hull. At 5 p.m. another local vessel, the "Lady K" arrived to assist. At 6:35 p.m. the three crew were taken off the casualty by the Lifeboat crew with the inflatable Yboat. At 8:40 p.m. the "Maggie J" arrived with extra pumps in case they were required and stood by also. At 10:15 p.m. the casualty was raised sufficiently on the tide that a tow off could be attempted and with the "New Venture"'s crew back aboard the boat was towed off and refloated. The crew checked the vessel over and with no signs of taking water they restarted the engine and made her way to Pierowall under the escort of the "Maggie J" and "Lady K". At 11:15 p.m. the lifeboat was released to return to base Report with photo: http://rnli.org/NewsCentre/Pages/Eight-hour-service-for-Kirkwall-volunteer-crew-in-rescue-of-three-men.aspx
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