Moonlight Express: 109 passengers rescued after charter boat ran aground in South Perth

A party boat had to be evacuated in the early hours of Saturday after running into trouble in South Perth.

More than 105 passengers and crew had to be rescued after the Moonlight Express ran aground about 2am.

Water Police said the boat hit a sandbar a couple of hundred metres left of the channel in South Perth.

No one was hurt and all 109 passengers and crew were safely transferred to another vessel.

A Party Boat Charters spokesman said the vessel returned to Barrack Street Jetty hours later.

“Due to an unusually low tide, the Moonlight Express nudged a sandbar,” he said.

“Thankfully, nobody was injured and the boat is safely birthed back in Elizabeth Quay.”