Bridlington’s All Weather Lifeboat was one of the four lifeboats and their crews that were called to the incident off the East Yorkshire coast this morning (Monday 10 March).
At 10.20am, HM Coastguard tasked Bridlington, Cleethorpes, Mablethorpe and Skegness lifeboats to support their response to two vessels that were reported to have been in collision with each other.
There were reports that a number of people had abandoned the vessels following a collision and there were fires on both ships.
By 11.40am, Cleethorpes had been stood down while Bridlington, Mablethorpe and Skegness continued to support search and rescue efforts.
The Bridlington boat, Antony Patrick Jones, is heading back to its station this evening as of 6.50pm
The incident is ongoing with the RNLI and HM Coastguard working together.
