The lifeboat was launched to assist a speedboat broken down with fuel pump failure off Herne Bay.

The craft was towed back to the launching ramp at Herne Bay harbour, and met by the coastguard.

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  The lifeboat heads past Tankerton en route to Herne Bay

  The speedboat is towed into the harbour...........

   ........and landed ashore to be met by the Herne Bay mobile coastguard unit.

   Returning to the carriage