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Service Launch 1813 - Full Details

Website Launch ID: 1813
Coastguard Incident ID: 291676

Launch Date: Tuesday 24 July 2012
Launch Time: 1526hrs

Lifeboat: ILB D739 Peterborough Beer Festival IV
Conditions: Cloudless, Good Visibility, ESE f3, Slight

Crew List:
Will Watson
Joe Pieniak
Stewart Lowis

Recover Time: 1700hrs

Details: Taske to a small (15ft) rigid inflatable boat (RIB) - Voyager, with 4 people on board, taking on water on the Outer Dogs Head sand bank, 1.5NM south of Skegness.

4 passengers were taken ashore by the ILB and the crew returned to the vessel and towed it from the bank. Skegness ALB (Lincolnshire Poacher) took over the tow back to Jacksons Corner, where the ILB again took over the tow to transport the RIB in to the shallows and ultimately recovered to the beach.

ILB RTS.

Outcome: RENDERED ASSISTANCE - 4 PEOPLE ASSISTED


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