Courtmacsherry RNLI crew rescue 12 people stranded on broken-down boat off West Cork coast

Monday's callout was the 19th of the year for the Courtmacsherry crew
Courtmacsherry RNLI crew rescue 12 people stranded on broken-down boat off West Cork coast

The Courtmacsherry RNLI lifeboat crew: Coxswain Mark Gannon, mechanic Stuart Russell and crew members Mark John Gannon, Ciaran Hurley, Jim O'Donnell, Dave Philips and Conor Tyndall. Picture: RNLI

Courtmacsherry’s RNLI crew helped bring a stricken pleasure boat and its 12 passengers safely back to the West Cork shore on Monday morning.

At 11.40am, the RNLI Trent class lifeboat Frederick Storey Cockburn was tasked to go to the assistance of a 40ft vessel stranded three miles off the Seven Heads in West Cork.

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