Narrowboat sinks in flood

BOATER Kevin Howell checked the webcam in York yesterday, Tuesday 25th September overlooking the Ouse towards Museum Gardens in the centre of York,  and writes:

I noticed three narrowboats moored there,  and I thought that they had better move soon as there is a lot of rain forecast and the river can rise very quickly!

Get to safety!

I moored there myself in early September and I know that they are not floating moorings. So if the forecast is bad, get to safety!

Well, I checked the webcam again this morning (Wednesday) to check the river level and to see that all boats had moved away but I could see something—where one of the narrowboats was the previous night. I could not make it out but to my horror, it was the very same narrowboat that I had seen the previous night, only sunk.

Heeded warning

Boaters 'Mick n Mags' on Rose of Arden told us they bailed-out of the Ouse at York a few days ago after a warning from a local lock keeper about river levels.

They were moored in exactly the same place a few days ago...

Of the narrowboat that sank, it was listing when the North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service crews arrived, and they cut the mooring lines to try to right the vessel, but it had taken on too much water.

All the navigable rivers in the North are in flood.