Continuation of yesterday's search for a missing person.

Launch No: 367
Craft: Spirit of the Dart. D-702
Sunday, 23 December 2018
Location: Dartmouth Harbour from the Higher Ferry to the mouth of the river.
RNLI Dart inshore lifeboat searching the river bank
Photo: Andy Kyle
RNLI Dart inshore lifeboat searching the river bank

The RNLI Dart D class lifeboat was self launched 50 minutes after the RNLI Dart Atlantic 75 lifeboat, to assist the Police in their continuing search for a missing person.. The river was at low tide and was searched from the Higher Ferry to the river mouth. Police divers also searched the Kingswear side of the river and were joined by the Police helicopter. The search was again unsuccessful.

The police helicopter joined in the search for a missing person
Photo: Andy Kyle
The police helicopter joined in the search for a missing person

Time

Request Received 10:50am
Time at incident Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 3.3333333333333335 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 3 hour, 20 minutes
Time to recovery Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 3.75 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 3 hour, 45 minutes
Back on Service 3:00pm

Conditions

Sea/River State River Calm
Wind Direction West
Wind Strength 3 knots

Lifeboat Crew

Jamie Mathys (Helm)
Will Davis
Yorkie Lomas
Stuart Millard

Shore Crew

Mark Strudwick (Tractor Driver)

Deputy Launch Authority

Station address

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

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The station is unmanned. Find contact details for each member of the RNLI Dart team here.

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Visitor Centre address

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

Visitor Centre phone number

01803 832423

Visitor Centre opening hours

The shop is now open from 11am to 3pm. on Monday, Thursday and Saturday and from 11am to 1pm on Tuesday and Wednesdays. After closing on Saturday 4 December the VC will be closed until the start of half term week in Feb 2022.

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