Barrow RNLI was called out after a yacht ran aground in the South Cumbria.
The volunteer crew was called at around 11.50am yesterday, Monday July 6, to the Walney Channel to help the crew of the 46ft yacht.
It had got into difficulty near East Scar in Walney Channel, to the south-east of Piel Island.
The RNLI’s inshore lifeboat, Raymond and Dorothy Billingham, was launched at around 12.25pm with Adam Cleasby at the helm with crew, Mike Armstrong and Phil Jackson.
The lifeboat made the short passage to the yacht and was able to reset its anchor.
The combination of a better anchor position and the incoming tide allowed the yacht to refloat, and the casualty was soon able to resume its onward passage to Fleetwood.
As a precaution and with other traffic operating in the Channel, the lifeboat escorted the yacht out towards Sea 5 buoy in the Outer Channel.
The lifeboat returned to the boathouse at around 1.10pm.
