It's been a very busy time for the RNLI over the last couple of days, with them being in attendance for the incident involving the Mazarine container ship that ran aground on Monday morning, near Wolf Rock Lighthouse, about 20 miles east of Scilly. The vessel, with 25 people on board, had suffered engine failure and sustained some limited damage.
The RNLI operation involved 28 team members from four different stations. More info is in the RNLI press release below, with pictures and video, all provided to us by the RNLI.
Four RNLI lifeboats launch to 195-metre disabled cargo vessel off Land’s End
Four RNLI lifeboats launched on Monday (10 July) to assist a 195-metre cargo vessel that had lost power and grounded on Wolf Rock Lighthouse off Land’s End.
RNLI all-weather lifeboats launched from Sennen Cove, Penlee, The Lizard and Falmouth lifeboat stations with a total of twenty-eight RNLI crew onboard.
Sennen Cove’s Tamar class all-weather lifeboat City of London III launched at 10am with seven RNLI crew, under the command of Coxswain Ollie George and made best speed to the area.
Shortly after, at 10:30am seven of Penlee RNLI’s volunteers aboard the all-weather Severn class lifeboat Ivan Ellen launched from Newlyn.
Penlee’s RNLI Coxswain Patch Harvey said ‘It's a distance of about 14 miles from Newlyn to Wolf Rock, and with the south westerly wind touching force 7 on our bow, it was a pretty uncomfortable trip out there but with the possibility of having to evacuate crew from the casualty vessel we were going full speed to get there quickly. It took about 45 minutes.’
Sennen Cove’s RNLI Coxswain, Ollie George said ‘When we launched initially, we thought we might be facing a situation where we were having to evacuate the crew from the vessel, and we were preparing ourselves for a very difficult situation.
Thankfully the Mazarine was able to clear Wolf Rock, but unable to restart her engines she was drifting at a rate of two knots towards Mounts
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