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Offshore ship battled fire on blazing yacht

On July 10, 2019, at 12:04 p.m. Ramsgate's All-Weather Lifeboat was launched at the request of HM Coastguard to a yacht on fire with a view to towing it back to Ramsgate. Whilst the Ramsgate lifeboat "Esme Anderson" made its way to the casualty the North East Spit pilot launch, which was passing by, saw the vessel alight and headed in its direction. The pilot boat then retrieved the family of three male adults and one teenage boy from their life raft, took them aboard, along with their life raft, and brought them back to Ramsgate Harbour. Also during this time the "Typhoon Tow" had arrived on the scene and using their fire hose, attempted to put the fire out. Once the all-weather boat arrived on scene the volunteer RNLI crew set up two further fire hoses and assisted in trying to put the fire out. After about three quarters of an hour of hosing the vessel down, it took on sea water, as the level of the hull had burnt to the sea level and sank, fortunately into water deep enough to not cause any issues to other passing boats. Report with photo: https://rnli.org/news-and-media/2019/july/12/ramsgate-rnli-assists-a-yacht-on-fire