Launches
As the RNL crew were assembling for Dartmouth's Remembrance Day Parade the Solent Coastguard tasked the inshore lifeboat to investigate a 42ft. sloop aground and tilting on the falling tide. There were no people on board the yacht and she was displaying an anchor ball. The lifeboat crew assumed that she had been blown from deeper water by the recent 50 Knot winds. There appeared to be no damage to the hull and no ingress of water. It was assumed that she would right herself on the rising tide and the Harbour Authority was informed. Lifeboat crew. Buster Hart, helmsman. Kevin Murphy and Aaron Spicer crew. Launch crew. Dai Richards, tractor driver. Chris Tracey and Jamie Mathys crew.
Request Received | 10:16am |
Time at incident | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.16666666666666666 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 10 minutes |
Time to recovery | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.48333333333333334 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 29 minutes |
Back on Service | 11:00am |
Sea/River State | River Calm |
Wind Direction | South |
Wind Strength | 25 knots |