Portsmouth-based HMS Dragon helps boat in distress Weymouth Bay

Sailors from Portsmouth-based HMS Dragon helped the crew of a yacht that came into difficulty after a lobster pot wrapped around its propeller shaft, off Lulworth Cove in Dorset.

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The 27-year-old from Southampton said: ‘I felt a huge sense of job satisfaction and achievement in being able to help the people on the yacht and allow them to continue on their way.’

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