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NEWS FROM THE RNLI LIFEBOAT TEAM IN DARTMOUTH LIFE JACKET LOCKERS
At last the RNLI life Jacket lockers are in place on the Dartmouth Yacht Club pontoon, just upstream from the lower ferry slip. The lockers are for the use of those landing by tender to store their life jackets or other life-saving equipment such as VHF radios, rather than having to carry them whilst shopping or storing them whilst having a meal. £1 is placed in the locker door and
it is returned when the key is inserted to open the door on return. It is not intended that the lockers should be used for storage overnight. If there is a problem during the day, such as a lost key, the DHNA harbour patrol can be contacted by radio or by calling at the DHNA offices at 6 Manor Street. There will be a £5 charge for a lost key. Out of Harbour Patrol hours and when the offices are shut, help may be obtained from the Royal Castle Hotel at 11 The Quay, Dartmouth. Tel. 01803 833033. There will be a further £30 call out fee for out of hour’s assistance. It is hoped to place a further six RNLI lockers at the Double Steps, north of the Town pontoon in the near future. There are similar lockers for the use of visiting yachtsmen in the Dartmouth Yacht Club; simply ask for help at the bar. Statistically it has been shown
that the greatest risk of falling into the water is when transferring to and from boats or from boats to the shore. Three have been saved on the Dart since June 2017 in such circumstances. Two of those saved were wearing life jackets and one
was thrown a life ring shortly after entering the water. A full description of those launches, numbered 294, 313 and 383, can be seen on the RNLI Dart station web site (see address below) It is our usual practice to have details of the most recent launch by either of the two RNLI Dart lifeboats
OPERATIONS REPORT The RNLI Dart lifeboats have been called out 20 times since the last update in By the Dart on 4 July 2019. 15 were by the Atlantic 75 B class lifeboat, 2 by our first D class lifeboat Spirit of the Dart D-702 and 3 by her replacement Dudley Jane D-838. 40% of the 20 launches were medevacs where a casualty or otherwise seriously ill person was brought ashore and handed over to the S W Ambulance service. Launch 398. D-702 was due to
Rob Everett, Assistant Dartmouth Harbour Master with the new RNLI lockers. Photo by Riki Bannister
“the greatest risk of falling into the water is when transferring to and
from boats or from boats to the shore. ”
on the web site within two hours of the crew’s return to the station. NEWS UPDATE. The DYC pontoon and the lockers will be moved away over winter to protect them from the winter storms. It is hoped that they will remain in place until after the Fishing Festival in October. Those on the Double Steps will be permanent once they have been set up. “LIFEJACKETS ARE USELESS UNLESS WORN” “WEARING A LIFE JACKET CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE”
be exchanged for D-838 later on the morning of 10 July but was launched at 2.15am to a seriously ill lady on a large motor cruiser in the harbour and taken to an ambulance on the Lower Ferry slip. Launch 400. The history of D-838 got off to a flying start as she was involved in helping, with others, to save the life of a solo yachtsman. The Falmouth Coastguard received an emergency call just before 2am from a yachtsman alone in his boat on a swinging mooring on the River Dart between Dartmouth and Dittisham. He feared that he had a recurrence of a serious condition when the treatment that had been prescribed for it had not helped The RNLI Dart D class lifeboat was launched eleven minutes later and was alongside six minutes after that. Having assessed the casualty and treated him appropriately, the crew transferred him to the care of the Dartmouth Coastguard SAR team who were waiting on
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