SECONDS COUNT…
This afternoon at 3.15pm Liverpool Coastguard received a report from a member of the public that there was a small boat adrift with nobody aboard off the ‘The Battery’ at Morecambe, Lancashire. A coastguard from Morecambe Coastguard Rescue Team quickly assessed that the boat ‘Toucan’ was drifting toward Heysham. The RNLI Hovercraft also from Morecambe was requested to launch and retrieved the 22ft vessel, towing it back to Morecambe before securing it close to the RNLI boathouse. Extensive investigations ensued, through local contacts, to ascertain the owner of the ‘Toucan’ and at 7.10 this evening Liverpool Coastguard received information that the boat was very likely to come adrift again and that acquaintances of the owner would attempt to take it back to its original mooring. At 8.30pm Liverpool Coastguard received a report that a group of people including a child were trying to secure the ‘Toucan’ but were in imminent danger of being cut off by the fast incoming tide. Once again