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Boat: All Weather Lifeboat
Crew: Mark Pollard (Coxswain), Peter Wood, David Proud, Snowy Angove, Alan Rowe, Alistair Heane, John Blakeston
Location: St Mawes
Shout Date: 15/08/2007 (All day)
Weather:S 6, Moderate Sea and Swell, Good Visibility, Partly Cloudy

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At 04:15 Falmouth Coastguard requested that Falmouth All Weather Lifeboat be launched following a VHF call from the 27m Luxury Motor Yacht Grand Lady reporting that she had parted its anchor cable and was aground in St Mawes with twelve people onboard.

Falmouth All Weather Lifeboat left its pontoon berth at 04:23 and having made contact with the skipper of the Grand Lady the Coxswain decided to request the launch of the Inshore Lifeboat to assist in taking off the non essential personnel and to transfer a tow line, the inshore lifeboat launching at 04:32. The All Weather Lifeboat arrived off St Mawes at 04:36 and used its searchlights to illuminate the scene. At 04:38 the Inshore Lifeboat also arrived on scene and placed a crewman onboard the vessel before evacuating the eight casualties who were safely transferred to the All Weather Lifeboat at 04:51.

At 05:00 the towline had been transferred to the stern of the vessel and by 05:08 the Grand Lady was towed clear and out into deeper water. As the vessel was unable to use its own engines due to concerns that the propellers had been damaged in the grounding, the All Weather Lifeboat towed the vessel back to Falmouth where she was berthed on the County Wharf Pontoon at 06:35.

The All Weather Lifeboat was back alongside its pontoon berth by 06:47. The lifeboat was then refuelled, and was ready for service by 07:05.

The Grand Lady is a Luxury Motor Yacht, which provides five star accommodation and is available for charter on the South Coast of England. The vessels anchor cable had parted in near gale conditions and despite the efforts of the skipper and crew they were unable to prevent the vessel going aground.