Injured yachtsman brought ashore.

Launch No: 78
Craft: Spirit of the Dart. D-702
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Location: Dartmouth harbour. Visitor's pontoon opposite to the Double steps.

A member of the crew of yacht Marquis had slipped whilst preparing the yacht for departure from Dartmouth and struck his head against a winch. The lifeboat transferred the casualty to an ambulance on the Kingswear Lower Ferry slip and he was taken to Torbay Hospital for observation. The crew of the lifeboat were helmsman Tony Chapman, with Haydn Glanvill and Yorkie Lomas.

Time

Request Received	4:58am
Time at incident	Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.7833333333333333 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 47 minutes
Time to recovery	Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.7 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 42 minutes
Back on Service	6:45am

Conditions

Sea/River State	River Calm
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RNLI Dart Lifeboat Station
Coronation Park
North Embankment
Dartmouth
Devon TQ6 9RR

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