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Testerossa (1)

A busy month for St Ives On 21 May 2006, relief Mersey class Royal Shipwright attended the 21m Testerossa, 27 miles north west of St Ives in near-galeforce winds. Sennen Cove's Tyne class Norman Salvesen joined in to achieve 5 knotsto St Ives Bay. The service lasted from 10pm-7.1 Sam. The following day, Royal Shipwright launched to a person fallen from the cliff at Hell's Mouth. All weather and inshore lifeboats were called to separate incidents at the same time on 14 June.

The Mersey class assisted a 10m fishing boat 17 miles north of St Ives while the D class Marguerite Joan Harris launched to a 34-year-old woman who had reacted badly to a weever fish sting. Lastly, the inshore lifeboat launched on 19 June to help a pregnant woman and her friend cut off by the tide on rocks at Porthminster Point..