Medical evacuation from boat in harbour

Launch No: 147
Craft: Constance Green. D-730
Saturday, 2 June 2012
Location: Dartmouth Harbour

The inshore lifeboat was tasked by HM Coastguard to evacuate a 60 year old lady from a permanently moored converted MFV in the harbour. She was taken to Kingswear ferry pontoon for transfer to Torbay Hospital by ambulance. The ambulance was diverted en route and the crew continued to deliver first aid until its arrival. Lifeboat crew; Buster Hart, helmsman, Chris Rampling and Darren Hopley crew. Launch crew; Jim Brent, tractor driver. Jerry Gilby.

Time

Request Received 2:01am
Time at incident Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.75 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 45 minutes
Time to recovery Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.0333333333333334 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 2 minutes
Back on Service 3:10am

Conditions

Sea/River State River Calm
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RNLI Dart Lifeboat Station
Coronation Park
North Embankment
Dartmouth
Devon TQ6 9RR

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