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A FISHING boat heading home to Scotland needed help from four lifeboats to get it back to its home port.
The Kalisto was on passage from Rye in Sussex to Arbroath, when it was hit by a series of engine problems culminating in a fire 20 miles off the Firth of Forth on Sunday night.
Dunbar’s RNLI lifeboat was diverted from an exercise in the area and went 18 miles to the vessel’s aid at about 10.30pm. By the time the lifeboat reached the stricken craft, the fire was out but the boat was unable to move under its own power.
Dunbar RNLI Coxswain Gary Fairbairn said: “Conditions were not too bad when we picked him up – there was a bit of a swell running but we were able to get him under tow quite easily.
“We headed up toward Arbroath, making pretty slow headway through the seas and the Coastguard requested Arbroath lifeboat to come down to meet us and take over the tow.”
The Kalisto reached Arbroath at about 3am after an 18-mile towing operation. The nine-metre fishing boat first hit problems on 2 June on its way from Rye to Arbroath with two men on board. Dover lifeboat was called out to her when the engine failed and towed it back into port where it was stormbound for several days. The boat broke down again off Seahouses in Norththumberland and the local RNLI lifeboat there had to go to its aid before it got underway again.
Kalisto was towed into her new home port of Arbroath in the early hours of Tuesday morning, where the damage will be assessed.
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