AN electronic tracking device from a car onboard a P&0 ferry may have been responsible for causing Moelfre RNLI to launch a rescue operation.
The RNLI lifeboat was launched at 9.20pm on Sunday, June 12, after the team received reports of an emergency signal four miles off Point Lynas, Amlwch.
The lifeboat arrived on the scene within 25 minutes but after an extensive search of the area produced nothing the crew were left with possibility that the signal may have come from a car onboard the European Endeavour Dublin to Liverpool ferry, which had previously been in the area.
Such tracking devices give off GPS signals and are fitted as standard into new BMW and Volvo vehicles.
On the same evening the RNLI Inshore Lifeboat was launched at 9.40pm to assist a man in a rubber dinghy who had retrieved his yacht’s tender which had broken free from his yacht moored off Red Wharf Bay.
The Moelfre RNLI Inshore Lifeboat Volunteer crew towed the man and his tender back to the safety of his yacht.