Boat trio saved by seconds.THREE men were rescued from their sinking mo-torboat seconds before it plunged under the Forth. They sent out a mayday call when their 14ft craft began taking on water. But it took an RNLI RNLI (in Britain) Royal National Lifeboat Institution RNLI n abbr (BRIT) (= Royal National Lifeboat Institution) → organización benéfica que proporciona un servicio de lanchas de socorro crew at full speed 20 minutes to reach the trio, from Musselburgh and Edinburgh, off the area's ash lagoons on Saturday. And the rescue was completed just as the vessel named Doodlebug sank. Kinghorm Lifeboat volunteer Neil Chalmers Sir Neil Chalmers, formerly Director of the Natural History Museum, is Warden of Wadham College, Oxford. Neil Chalmers was educated at King's College School, Magdalen College, Oxford, and St John's College, Cambridge. said yesterday: "They could have died if they had not had a tracking system so that they were able to give their location accurately. "It would have been too late if we'd had to search." Just hours earlier, the lifeboat had dashed to aid a sinking fishing boat off nearby Inchcolm Island. But the vessel's crew of two had already been picked up by a yacht yacht: see motorboating; sailing. yacht Sail- or motor-driven vessel used for racing or recreation. The term is popularly applied to large recreational engine-powered boats; the sailboats known as yachts and used for racing are usually light and . |
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