THE Abbie Deans Spirit of Blyth and Wansbeck Lifeboat was called out yesterday morning to rescue a fishing boat.

The Shelley Marie suffered a fractured Sea cooling water pipe causing loss of engines/causing it to drift.

An Emergeny call was made from the Humber Coastguard and the lifeboat was thus launched at 9.30am on Wednesday, December 2.

A crew of ten volunteers turned up with five taking to sea to carry out the rescue.The Lifeboat was quickly on the scene where the RNLI lifeboat from Cullercoats had the fishing vessell on a rope.

They allowed the BAWLB to take the tow and we duly brought the above vessell from approx two miles off the coast of Blyth safely to a berth in the comforts of the harbour.

The two man crew were met by the HMI Coastguard Officers who ensured all was safe and well with both vessell and crew.

Source: newspostleader.co.uk