Flaming good time on maiden voyage

Posted on October 01^st 2008

A first voyage in years should be a remembered trip, for one Merseyside man for almost the wrong reasons when a fire on board the 36ft wooden cabin cruiser threatened to ignite the gas canisters and blow up the vessel.

The man and two friends where around 2 miles offshore and had a mechanical or electrical fault on the vessel. The fault caused sparks to ignite a fire onboard. Smoke began to bellow out of the vessel while flames took hold of the boat.

The three men were rescued when a passing fishing boat picked them from the boat and later took them to shore.

A lifeboat crew picked up fire fighters with heat seeking equipment and went out to the vessel to put out the blaze.

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