Two incidents on opposite sides of the English Channel during January resulted in seven seamen being landed from leaking commercial vessels.

Safely ashore - one. The four crew from the coaster Manias are pictured (right) being landed from the St Peter Port (CI) Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold on 7 January. The lifeboat spent over four hours in squally weather and 15ft seas bringing the men ashore after their Limassol-registered vessel had begun to take in water. The coaster was towed to Cherbourg by a French tug..