15ft sports boat broken down near the Skerries

Launch No: 331
Craft: Spirit of the Dart. D-702
Monday, 7 May 2018
Location: Near the Skerries bank. Start Bay.

Photo: David Bown

Sports boat being towed back from Start Bay

The Coastguard tasked the RNLI Dart D class lifeboat to a 15ft sports boat that had broken down in Start Bay. There were 2 persons on board. The vessel taken under tow back to Dartmouth.

Time

Request Received	2:57pm
Time at incident	Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.05 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 3 minutes
Time to recovery	Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 3.216666666666667 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 3 hour, 13 minutes
Back on Service	6:25pm

Conditions

Sea/River State	Smooth
Wind Direction	South
Wind Strength	3 knots

Lifeboat Crew

Jamie Mathys (Helm)

Ewen Menzies

Aaron Spicer

Shore Crew

Stuart Millard (Tractor Driver)

Will Davis

Dani Lodge

Chris Tracey

Deputy Launch Authority

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Dartmouth
Devon TQ6 9RR

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