POOLE’S lifeboat volunteers were called out three times on Sunday afternoon.

The first incident involved a 24ft yacht ran which had run aground in the River Frome at the entrance of the Wareham Channel, which reportedly had four people onboard.

The volunteers were called at 3.15pm and on arrival the crew found one person was aboard the vessels tender while the other three were on the yacht.

An RNLI spokesperson said: “A lifeboat crewman was put onto the yacht and he secured a towline, the lifeboat towed the stricken vessel into deeper water, with its engine running, and the towline was released.

“The person in the tender had broken down and had been pushed into the shallows and up against the reeds. The lifeboat approached and threw a line to pull the tender and one person to safety.”

The person was transferred onboard the lifeboat and the tender taken undertow.

The lifeboat followed the yacht to its mooring at Ridge.

The crew then returned to the station and the lifeboat was ready for service by 5.45pm.

At 7.20pm, the D class was requested to launch and assist a person in a dinghy that had broken down north of Brownsea Island.

The dinghy was found between the Old Chain Ferry barge and Brownsea lagoon, the crew checked the person over and then attached a tow line and brought him back to Poole Quay and into Fishermen’s Dock.

Then at 8.20pm, the Atlantic lifeboat was launched to a report of a distressed person on Bournemouth Pier.

As the lifeboat crew got underway, a radio message came through to say the situation had changed and the person was deemed safe, so the lifeboat was stood down and requested by the Coastguard to return back to station.