Both of Howth's RNLI lifeboats were deployed on Saturday morning to aid a family of four on a yacht that had run aground at the entrance to Malahide Harbour.
The volunteer lifeboat crew's pagers went off at 11:45am and the crew of the Howth Inshore Lifeboat immediately responded, shortly followed by the Howth All-Weather Lifeboat with five crew on-board.
Upon arriving at the scene, the crew established that the yacht was aground but was not damaged. They aided the skipper of the yacht in deploying the anchor and three of the yacht's crew were transferred onto the All-Weather boat to return to Howth.
