Launches
The girl-friend of the owner of a 16ft motorboat reported to the Coastguard that he had told her that he had dropped his keys overboard and she could not subsequently get back to him. The boat had drifted into a line of moorings at the head of Old Mill Creek. The lifeboat crew attached the boat to a mooring and brought the owner back to the lifeboat station. Lifeboat crew. Kevin Murphy, helmsman. Rich Egglestone and Chris Rampling, crew. Shore crew. Jerry Gilby, tractor driver. Pete Callis & Mark Strudwick,crew.
Request Received | 4:07am |
Time at incident | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.08333333333333333 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 5 minutes |
Time to recovery | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.7166666666666667 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 43 minutes |
Back on Service | 5:00am |
Sea/River State | River Calm |
Wind Direction | Northwest |
Wind Strength | 4-6 knots |