The Soar rescue—in pictures

HERE is the removal of the stricken narrowboat from the bridge at Barrow-on-Soar by River Canal Rescue—in pictures.

 

Preparation the boat

Re-rigging the boat for the pull

Connecting the hawser

Swinging boat round

Ready to haul

The first pull

 

Preparing second pull

The second pull

Below the boat upright and the final pump-out. We acknowledge the River Canal Rescue for the photographs and the photographer Mike Brown.