Lifeboat launched to stricken speedboat in Poole

Poole lifeboat was requested to launch just before 5pm (Monday August 16) to a report of a 15ft speedboat that had broken down, somewhere off Sandbanks.

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The lifeboat found the stricken vessel with six people on-board some 1.5 miles east of the harbour, the people on-board had tried to deploy their anchor but the area that they found themselves in was too deep, however they did manage to pick up and secure themselves to a marker buoy.