A crew from Barrow lifeboat station was called to the aid of three people aboard a yacht at the weekend after they had ‘lost steering’.

Volunteers from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in Barrow launched their all-weather lifeboat late on Saturday evening to go to the aid of a yacht south of Haverigg, after the yacht had run aground following the loss of steering.

The crew was paged and the all-weather lifeboat, ‘Grace Dixon’, was launched at around 10pm under the command of coxswain Shaun Charnley and assisted by a crew of six.

The team was joined by Haverigg Inshore Rescue Team who had towed the casualty vessel, which had also started to lose power, into deeper water.

After an hour, the tow line was passed from Haverigg’s rescue craft to the ‘Grace Dixon’, and the stricken yacht was taken under tow back to Barrow, with the boat arriving back just after 1am on Sunday morning.

A spokesman from Barrow lifeboat station said: “The casualty vessel was placed on a mooring in Walney Channel so that repairs could be undertaken in due course.

“With the yacht and its crew safe, the ‘Grace Dixon’ was winched back into the boathouse and made ready for the next launch.”