Launches
A 42 ft yacht with three men on board requested help due to loss of engine power. They were able to sail into the Bight, where they lowered their sails and were taken in tow by the Dartmouth D class inshore lifeboat. They were secured alongside the Town Quay. The call out was noteworthy because of the torrential rain, the strength of the wind from the S East and the size of the yacht. Lifeboat crew. Kevin Murphy, helmsman. Richard Eggleton and Mark Conroy, lifeboat crew. Launch crew. Pete callis, tractor driver. Yorkie Lomas crew.
Request Received | 5:39pm |
Time at incident | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.6 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 36 minutes |
Time to recovery | Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.0166666666666666 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 1 minutes |
Back on Service | 6:50pm |
Sea/River State | Rough |
Wind Direction | Southeast |
Wind Strength | 22-27 knots (Gusts: 33 |