Fishing boat rescued by RNLI after being caught on the rocks in Co …

A fishing boat was rescued by the RNLI after getting stuck on rocks at Millisle. The Donaghadee RNLI lifeboat volunteers were alerted by a member of the public to a small fishing boat that got into difficulty off the Co Down[1] coast at 6.18pm on Saturday, April 29. The red and white boat appeared to have lost power and the man on board was trying to paddle to shore with a piece of wood.

The HM Coastguard asked the crew of the RNLI lifeboat Macquarie to go to the assistance of the boat and found that it had run aground on rocks on the Donaghadee side of the Millisle lagoon. The lifeboat's daughter boats were launched to assist the man, with crew members Ross Bennett and Nicola Butler attaching a tow rope and bringing the boat and skipper to Millisle slipway where he was handed over to the Coastguard where safety advice would have been given. John Ashwood, Donaghadee Lifeboat Deputy Coxswain, said: "Well done to the member of the public for reporting this incident, things to go wrong unexpectedly on boats and the sooner we can attend an incident the better all round.

"As always we would recommend that when going to sea you carry a means of communication and always wear a lifejacket.

Many thanks to the crew that attended this evening, which was actually the second page of the day, thankfully the first page did not require us to launch the lifeboat."

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