Volunteer crew from the RNLI’s Barrow Lifeboat Station were called to recover a motorboat adrift in the Walney Channel.
The call for assistance was received from the Coastguard base in Holyhead at 6.55am yesterday.
The information received was that a 16ft motorboat had broken free from its mooring north of Jubilee Bridge and was drifting across Walney Channel towards the Dock Museum.
As such, it posed a hazard to navigation and might have caused damage to other vessels nearby.
The crew was paged and the Barrow inshore lifeboat, Vision of Tamworth, was launched at 7.15am with Ben Jackson at the helm assisted by Adam Cleasby and Paul Wilcock.
The lifeboat was on scene shortly after 7.30am but as the high tide had passed nearly two hours previously, it was clear that the casualty vessel was now aground.
The owners were contacted and advised that their vessel would refloat on the afternoon tide, and it was established that they were happy to wait until then and move it back on to a mooring themselves.
The lifeboat was stood down and able to return to Roa Island where it was rehoused and made ready for the next launch.
