Dart Lifeboats involved in mass rescue at Sharpham

Launch No: 438
Craft: Staines Whitfield. B-795
Sunday, 5 July 2020
Location: Sharpham
Photo: Andy Kyle

Dart RNLI were tasked to assist in the rescue of initially 3 persons in the water after their 16ft sailing boat had capsized. Once on scene at Sharpham, they quickly ascertained that there had in fact been 7 persons on board, but the other 4 had swum ashore and waded through some pretty thick mud to safety on the bank of the River Dart. Dart D-Class plucked the 4 people from the mud bank and took them over to the Dart B-Class. All 7 were then taken back to Dittisham where they were met by Dart Coastguard. It turned out that the skipper had just raised the jib and main sail and then they were hit by a gust of wind and the vessel capsized. Dart Harbour then came to the rescue with strops and pumps and managed to lift the sailing boat out of the water. 

Photo: Andy Kyle

Time

Request Received 4:53pm
Time at incident Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.0666666666666667 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 4 minutes
Time to recovery Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 2.1166666666666667 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 2 hour, 7 minutes
Back on Service 7:30pm

Conditions

Sea/River State River Choppy
Wind Direction West
Wind Strength Force 4-6

Map: trackaship universal

Lifeboat Crew

Rich Eggleton (Helm)
Haydn Glanvill
Stuart Millard

Shore Crew

Karl Madge
Paul Manley

Deputy Launch Authority

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North Embankment
Dartmouth
Devon TQ6 9RR

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