Portsmouth-based HMS Dragon helps boat in distress Weymouth Bay

By Millie Salkeld
Published 8th Sep 2020, 19:40 BST
HMS Dragon comes to rescue of stricken yacht off a Dorset beauty spot.HMS Dragon comes to rescue of stricken yacht off a Dorset beauty spot.
HMS Dragon comes to rescue of stricken yacht off a Dorset beauty spot.
A TYPE 45 destroyer, out on a training exercise, came to the aid of a boat in distress at the weekend.

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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