The volunteer crew at North Berwick RNLI launched the charity’s D class inshore lifeboat at 8.56am on Sunday.
They had received a report of a person in the water from a sinking vessel off Craigielaw point, Aberlady and Kinghorn RNLI’s B class inshore lifeboat was also launched to the incident.
The boat headed into a short, sharp 1.5m wind driven swell. North Berwick lifeboat was on scene half an hour after launch finding the casualty vessel partially submerged, but pushed hard aground on rocks by the westerly conditions.
Whilst there was a marker buoy nearby, which the crew say could have been mistaken for a person in the water, both lifeboats started a search of the immediate area whilst Coastguard Rescue Teams carried out inquiries ashore.
The crew of Kinghorn Lifeboat, designated on-scene coordinator, carried out a search of the waters in the immediate vicinity of the casualty vessel whilst North Berwick Lifeboat carried out a shoreline search from Aberlady Bay to Cockenzie harbour.
The search was stood down once Aberdeen Coastguard were content that no-one was in the water with the lifeboats departing the scene at 11am.
In any coastal emergency, dial 999 and ask for the Coastguard.
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