Loggo
Well-Known Member
Regular Trent users will be familiar with Angell Hardy ll - often to be seen around Fiskerton upstream from Newark. I attach the following clipped from the Fakenham and Wells Times and wish the crew better luck in future.
"Wells-Next-the-Sea’s all-weather lifeboat was called to rescue the barge in rough seas off Blakeney Point on the North Norfolk coast.
The 17 metre boat, Angell Hardy 2, had four people on board and was on passage from Grimsby. She was left wallowing in heavy swell and two-metre waves and was unable to anchor because of the conditions.
Wells lifeboat, Doris M Mann of Ampthill, launched at 2.30pm.
She eventually secured a line to the vessel and took her in tow fifty minutes later. The pair then made their way back to Wells harbour.
Conditions were extremely difficult in the head sea as the waves were breaking over the casualty vessel’s foredeck. Care had to taken to minimise the water flooding into the accommodation which was not watertight.
On reaching the harbour entrance at Wells the lifeboat also had difficulty in negotiating the bar in the seas which were beam-on to the two boats.
Despite the lifeboat crew’s best efforts, the barge had taken on a lot of water, so at 5.12pm she was moored up on a pontoon in the outer harbour. "
"Wells-Next-the-Sea’s all-weather lifeboat was called to rescue the barge in rough seas off Blakeney Point on the North Norfolk coast.
The 17 metre boat, Angell Hardy 2, had four people on board and was on passage from Grimsby. She was left wallowing in heavy swell and two-metre waves and was unable to anchor because of the conditions.
Wells lifeboat, Doris M Mann of Ampthill, launched at 2.30pm.
She eventually secured a line to the vessel and took her in tow fifty minutes later. The pair then made their way back to Wells harbour.
Conditions were extremely difficult in the head sea as the waves were breaking over the casualty vessel’s foredeck. Care had to taken to minimise the water flooding into the accommodation which was not watertight.
On reaching the harbour entrance at Wells the lifeboat also had difficulty in negotiating the bar in the seas which were beam-on to the two boats.
Despite the lifeboat crew’s best efforts, the barge had taken on a lot of water, so at 5.12pm she was moored up on a pontoon in the outer harbour. "
Last edited:
