Margate lifeboat assists Belgian trawler

The Belgian trawler Marreje Aaltje aground on the Kentish Knock sands off Margate. Photo taken from the Margate RNLI lifeboat, credit: RNLI Margate

The crew of the Margate RNLI lifeboat have provided assistance to a Belgian trawler that ran aground on a sandbank off the north Kent coast with fears at one stage that its crew would have to be taken off.

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