Sea rescue

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  3 January 2012     14:31145346
  #1      
  this was mentioned on another thread, looks like all has ended well.
  
  http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2012/january/3/rescue_mission.aspx
• howard mcsweeney1

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  3 January 2012     20:32145427
  #2      
  once again sterling work from our lifeboat people meant that only 1 person had any injuries though sea sickness took its toll.
  
  hardly surprising.
  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  didn't catch this chaps name but i have met him a few years ago when he was giving a tour of the lifeboat station.
  
  last name begins with a c if i remember correctly
  
  

  

  
  
  no doubt we will get a press release from martin,
• Guest 717

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  3 January 2012     21:58145444
  #3      
  He is J.Clapham, Station mechanic and now a Coxwain as well
  Keeps politics to myself
• howard mcsweeney1

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  3 January 2012     22:53145450
  #4      
  that's the chap helen, i remember him telling us that he was the only paid crewman and that when anything even slightly went amiss there was a lifeboat full of volunteer crewmen looking daggers at him.
• Guest 651

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  4 January 2012     11:39145513
  #5      
  There is a video now online of the rescue
  
  [URL][/URL]
  Been nice knowing you :)
• howard mcsweeney1

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  4 January 2012     16:07145551
  #6      
  that is spectacular but why was a training yacht out in those conditions, surely they would have been warned of the storm well in advance by listening to their radio?
  
  what a job by our lifeboat crews though.
• Guest 663

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  4 January 2012     20:47145599
  #7      
  Spoke this morning with Tony Hawkins he said, the Guys on the yacht should have known better than to try to attempt sailing it to a boat show knowing that the weather yesterday was going to be horrendous, the lifeboat chaps got it safely into Ramsgate harbour but it took all day.