Launch to broken down 23 ft motor cruiser

Launch No: 173
Craft: Spirit of the Dart. D-702
Saturday, 8 June 2013
Location: Redlap Cove. Start Bay

Dart RNLI inshore lifeboat was tasked by the Coastguard to the asistance of the 23 ft. motor cruiser Trojan that had broken down at Redlap Cove with one person on board, after no other craft had answered his Pan Pan call. The lifeboat attended and towed the boat back to Noss Marina in a freshening wind. Lifeboat crew: Buster Hart helmsman. Jamie Mathys and Steve Wallis crew. Launch crew: Tony Rendle Tractor driver. Kevin Murphy crew.

Time

Request Received 5:14pm
Time at incident Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 0.8 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 48 minutes
Time to recovery Deprecated: Implicit conversion from float 1.4333333333333333 to int loses precision in /home/dartlifeboatorg/public_html/launches-detail.php (line 272) 1 hour, 26 minutes
Back on Service 6:50pm

Conditions

Sea/River State Slight
Wind Direction South-Southeast
Wind Strength 7-10 knots

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Shore Crew

Deputy Launch Authority

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

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