BEAUMARIS lifeboat was launched to investigate after reports of an overturned boat in the Menai Strait near Caernarfon.

The UK Coastguard alerted the Beaumaris lifeboat volunteers at 10.08 am on Friday following calls about a fifteen foot dory fishing boat adrift near Victoria dock.

The volunteer crew launched the Beaumaris Lifeboat Annette Mary Liddinton at 10.16am.

An initial sighting turned out to be a tree trunk but the vessel was later spotted aground on a sandbank on the Anglesey side of the Strait.

Due to insufficient depth of water on the sand bar the lifeboat had to go back down the Strait to return on Anglesey side.

However, the lifeboat was unable to get close and

had to wait for the incoming tide to allow a sufficient depth of water depth to allow it to reach the stricken vessel.

In the meantime the Bangor Coastguard team had travelled back from the Caernarfon side of the Strait to Anglesey.

They established the craft's identification and.that whilst overturned, it was still attached to her mooring.

The UK Coastguard then released the lifeboat to return to station.

It was back at Beaumaris at 1pm after being refuelled, washed down and made ready for her next service by 1.30pm.