VOLUNTEER crewman from Barrow launched their inshore and all weather lifeboats last night (Sunday) to help a motor vessel with a propeller fouled on a mooring rope.
The 11-metre-long steel hulled vessel ‘MV Eagle’ had picked up a mooring buoy on the edge of Walney Channel, Barrow.
The mooring rope had become fouled on the vessel's propeller and the two man crew were unable to free the mooring and get under way again.
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The all weather lifeboat with a crew of six under the command of Barrow Coxswain, Shaun Charnley, launched at 8pm and was alongside the casualty five minutes later.
The inshore lifeboat with a three man crew followed shortly afterwards and went alongside the casualty whilst the larger boat used her floodlights to illuminate the sceney.
After a prolonged effort the vessel was eventually freed from the mooring and escorted to the lifeboat emergency mooring off the lifeboat station.
The crews then returned the lifeboats to the station and after washing down and refuelling they were re-housed by 10pm.
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