The all weather boat launched at 2:45am after a mayday call from 69 miles off-shore.
Scarborough RNLI’s all-weather lifeboat launched in the middle of last night when a 25m guard vessel issued a Mayday call 69 nautical miles out to sea.
As if engine failure wasn’t bad enough, the stricken vessel was taking on water and struggling against the weather. Storm Corrie was raging, with a six-metre swell and a force 10 north-westerly wind.
Fortunately, the crew of four managed to repair the engine and the lifeboat returned to base.
The lifeboat launched at 2.45am and returned at 9am.
Guard vessels are used to protect oil and gas platforms and other installations at sea, making sure other vessels keep clear.
A Mayday call is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by mariners and aviators. Convention requires the word be repeated three times in a row during the initial emergency declaration ("Mayday mayday mayday") to prevent it being mistaken for some similar-sounding phrase under noisy conditions, and to distinguish an actual mayday call from a message about a mayday call.
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