TYNEMOUTH Volunteer Life Brigade was called out on Friday after a fishing vessel ran aground.
At 9.46pm the HM Coastguard paged the Brigade with a request to provide shore side support to Tynemouth RNLI as a fishing vessel had ran aground along the River Tyne after picking something up from the riverbed due to a very low spring tides which led the rudder to jam.
The Lifeboat first brought the vessel off a sand bank that it had become stuck on, and then brought the vessel alongside, which was complicated by the boat having very little manoeuvrability due to the rudder being stuck facing starboard.
The crew of the Lifeboat managed to counter this by attaching their boat to the port side of the fishing vessel which countered the rudder and then brought it, and the four man crew, safely into the Fish Quay.
The Brigade was stood down shortly after 11pm.
In 2021 the Brigade has so far responded to 21 Callouts.
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