At 06.45 yesterday morning, H.M Coastguard requested the immediate launch of the Exmouth lifeboat in response to a Mayday call from a fishing vessel that had water flooding into the engine room.
The All Weather Lifeboat, R&J Welburn, and six volunteer crew launched and made best speed to the reported location of the vessel. Due to the serious nature of the incident, our volunteer colleagues at Teignmouth RNLI had also been paged and launched their lifeboat, The Two Annes, to provide further assistance. A number of other commercial vessels also responded to the call for help.
The fishing vessel was approximately three miles east of Teignmouth and our Teignmouth colleagues arrived on scene first, followed shortly after by the Exmouth RNLI crew. Both crews were then able to place a number of crew and salvage pumps on board to lower the level of water in the engine room and allow a subsequent safe tow to be attached by one of the responding fishing vessels.
At this stage, our Teignmouth colleagues returned to station whilst the Exmouth RNLI volunteers escorted the vessel under tow and its two occupants back to the safety of Brixham harbour.
Another great piece of teamwork from our RNLI volunteers and our sincere thanks to the other vessels who also responded to the call for help. Our Exmouth volunteer crew eventually got safely back to the station for midday.
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