Lifeboatman leaps aboard runaway speedboat An incident on 29 July 1995 in which a speedboat owner fell overboard while retrieving his brother from the water left one of them injured by the boat's propeller and with their boat careering around at high speed off a crowded beach, with no-one at the helm.

Mablethorpe's D class inflatable was called out and helmsman Tom Freeman managed to intercept the runaway so that crew member Mick Simpson could make a hazardous leap aboard and cut the engine. Tom Freeman said 'it was a matter of split-second timing. If we hadn't stopped that boat it would have hit the crowded beach.' Mick Simpsom admitted: 'my knees were a bit wobbly when I realised what I had done!' The third member of the crew, Andy Hollingsworth, had been ready to dive in to drag Mick clear had anything gone wrong..