Search for missing visiting yachtsman

Launch No: 230
Craft: Spirit of the Dart. D-702
Monday, 29 June 2015
Location: Dartmouth Harbour

The inshore lifeboat was tasked by Falmouth Coastguard when a foreign visiting yachtsman had been reported missing in the harbour. The party had come ashore from their yacht on the visitors pontoon. After a meal they found their tender was dry on the mud. One of the crew decided to push it through the mud into the water whilst the others returned by the water taxi and found that he was not on board their yacht. The engine of the tender had failed but he managed to reach a pontoon on the Dartmouth side where he was found by the lifeboat crew. His wife was brought ashore by the lifeboat and the couple were then returned to their yacht.

Time

Request Received 11:13pm
Time at incident Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.5166666666666667 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 31 minutes
Time to recovery Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.0333333333333334 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 2 minutes
Back on Service 12:27am

Conditions

Sea/River State Calm
Wind Direction Southeast
Wind Strength 5 knots

Lifeboat Crew

Buster Hart (Helm)
Mark Conroy
Rich Eggleton

Shore Crew

Jerry Gilby (Tractor Driver)
Stuart Millard
Chris Tracey

Deputy Launch Authority

Station address

RNLI Dart Lifeboat Station
Coronation Park
North Embankment
Dartmouth
Devon TQ6 9RR

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RNLI Visitor Centre
9 South Embankment (Ground Floor)
Dartmouth
Devon TQ6 9BH

Visitor Centre phone number

01803 832423

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