Outbreak of fires At 4.30am on 4 January 2006, the B class Atlantic 21 Falmouth Round Table launched to a 6.7m yacht on fire on the Penryn River, Cornwall. The skipper had been asleep when the fire started but managed to escape through the front hatch to safety onshore.

The yacht later sank. On 5 February, Anstruther's Mersey class Kingdom of Fife and Kinghorn's B class Atlantic 75 Frederick Robertson assisted a 10m fishing vessel in flames in Largo Bay, Fife, number's Severn class Pride of the Humber, Bridlington's Mersey class Marine Engineer and three RAF helicopters were launched on 16 February to evacuate workers when a fire broke out on a gas rig off Flamborough Head in East Yorkshire..