Launches
A 31 foot ketch had moored alongside the Steam Packet Inn at Totnes to pick up a passenger. They called the Coastguard for assistance when the engine failed to restart and there was concern that the vessel, with a deep keel, would fall over on the ebbing tide. They decided to drift downstream guided by their own dinghy. Opposite Baltic Wharf they threw a line to the Dartmouth mobile Coastguard Search and Rescue team who pulled them alongside into a deeper berth. The lifeboat was stood down when they were 30 feet from the casualty vessel. Lifeboat crew. Buster Hart, helmsman. Haydn Glanvill and Kevin John crew. Launch crew. Steve Wallis, tractor driver. Tony Rendle crew.
Request Received | 11:20pm |
Time at incident | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.26666666666666666 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 16 minutes |
Time to recovery | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.4166666666666667 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 25 minutes |
Back on Service | 12:55am |
Sea/River State | River Calm Ebbing tide |
Wind Direction | North-Northwest |
Wind Strength | 4-6 knots |