Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: Coastguard

Further on seeing reports of this online, it appears that the speed-boat, included in this collage, may not have been involved in the rescue.

I have no idea whether this little craft is here for maintenance or for decommissioning & sale. It doesn't have any markings visible from these angles to identify it, apart from the Coastguard logo. I have compared this boat with other Coastguard vessels online and the make & model seem to match. If anyone has better information about it, I shall be happy to update the caption.

Now was this an emergency or an exercise? The weekends are a good time for the latter, especially for lifeboat volunteers and retained firemen, who wouldn't have to rush away from their jobs - assuming they don't work at weekends. 3.11.2011 - Thanks to the South Coast Leader (newspaper) we now know that William Mary snagged its nets on the bottom 21 miles out to sea. There was a fire in the engine room and one crew member had burns to his hands. The lifeboat was called out at 5.16am on Saturday. The fire was extinguished and the nets recovered. The lifeboat then towed the trawler back to port, arriving at about 11.30am.