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Rye Harbour Lifeboat Station

News release

Issued by Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer

25/11/2007 13.15pm REFERENCE SMT/071125-008

Speedboat rescued in mouth of River Rother.


Rye Harbour RNLI Lifeboat, B727 'Commander and Mrs Rodney Wells' launched today (Sunday 25 November 2007) at 12.08 to a speedboat that had broken down in the mouth of the River Rother at Rye Harbour .

Following the replacement of one of the lifeboat engine gearboxes, the lifeboat was being recovered from the river after testing the engine - when one of the station personnel noticed a speedboat: in the harbour entrance alongside the river wall, with one of the occupants running up the slope of the wall.

The lifeboat was launched.  They made their way to the speedboat to see if they required any assistance - they did - the speedboat had broken down.  They were taken in tow by the lifeboat and returned to their mooring at Rye.

Richard Tollett, Lifeboat Operations Manager at Rye Harbour RNLI Lifeboat Station said:

‘We thought there was something wrong when one of the crew got out of the boat and ran up the wall with a rope’.

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Notes to editors

  1. The RNLI has over 330 lifeboats at its stations. This fleet enables the lifeboat service to reach at least 90% of all casualties within 10 nautical miles of lifeboat stations within 30 minutes of launch in all weathers .
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For more information please contact Steve Tollett, the RNLI lifeboat press officer at Rye Harbour Lifeboat Station on email: Press Officer.

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