CAT TRAPPED UNDER PONTOON IN EAST COWES RESCUED BY LIFEBOAT CREW

Cowes RNLI lifeboat was tasked to rescue a trapped cat over the weekend. HM Coastguard had been alerted to the fact that a cat was spotted trapped under a pontoon at East Cowes Marina yesterday afternoon (Sunday). Anxious that the public could be at risk if they attempted a rescue, they asked the lifeboat to perform the task of rescuing the moggy. On arrival, the crew and marina staff managed to reach the beleaguered feline by partially dismantling the wooden structure. The cat duly sprang to freedom, to continue its prowl of the surroundings; and the lifeboat crew – with not a scratch between them – was able to return to station, arriving at 14;32. But the lifeboat’s exercise had yet one more eventful twist to go. As it was proceeding downriver it was hailed by the crew of a tender that had run out of fuel. So the lifeboat assumed its rescue mode once again – towing the craft to Shepards Marina. It finally arrived back at the lifeboat station at 15:22. Later the station was contacted by the grateful woman owner of the cat, who said she had been looking for the cat all night before hearing plaintive mewing from under the pontoon at 13:00.