Sunday no rest day for RNLI crews at Montrose

Montrose’s lifeboats were called out twice on Sunday afternoon.

At 12.30 Moonbeam and the inshore lifeboat were launched when a 24-foot day-angler lost engine power.

On a strong ebb tide the boat, with two men on board, began to drift across the notorious Annat sand bank at the mouth of the South Esk estuary.

The lifeboatmen managed to get a line on board and towed the boat to the safety of the shipping channel and back into port.

At about 6.30pm the lifeboats were launched again on a report that two swimmers were in difficulties in Lunan Bay.

Onlookers had feared they were in danger of being swept out to sea but both managed to get ashore and the lifeboats were stood down.