A person was left stranded in the dark on a sinking ship last night, after their 8m yacht began taking on water and cut the boat's power.

The Happisburgh RNLI received a mobile call just before 9pm on September 20, to reports of a vessel taking on water five miles off the coast of Happisburgh.

There was a hunt to find the vessel, as the yacht had no working radio.

However after putting up a white flair, the crew found the ship with one person on board.

The crew then set about attending to the casualty and ridding the yacht of water with a salvage pump.

Tim Grimmer was at the helm of the lifeboat, and said: 'The crew had to work together and this went like clockwork, each member had a job to do and the team worked well together.'

The rest of the team on board the Howard Bell lifeboat were Charlotte Siely, Martin Gibbs and Sam Gillard.

Once the lifeboat, towing the yacht reached the 'Yarmouth Roads' they were joined by Gorleston Lifeboat who took over the tow to take the yacht into the harbour.