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Busy weekend for lifeboat



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EASTBOURNE'S lifeboats were called into action over the weekend.

Both the inshore and all weather lifeboats were out at sea and on Sunday the crew was called into action on four occasions, believed to be an all time record.
The action began on Saturday afternoon when the inshore lifeboat was called to help a casualty on the beach at Cow Gap.
The casualty was reported as an injured person with a suspected fracture of the shoulder and was on the clifftop. An ambulance was also called and Dr Stephen Lytton, the lifeboat's deputy medical advisor and crewmember who had missed the launch and drove to Cow Gap himself, assisted the paramedics.
In the early hours of Sunday morning a report of a young female in the sea opposite the Carlton Hotel saw the inshore lifeboat being launched.
The girl had been helped ashore by friends by the time the crew got to the scene.
The next shout was in the afternoon at 3pm when the all weather lifeboat was launched to assist an eight metre motor cruiser with a broken prop shaft.
The cruiser had ten people on board was a mile and a quarter south of Eastbourne Pier.
At the scene a tow line was passed and the motor cruiser was towed back to Sovereign Harbour.
As the lifeboat was making its way back to Sovereign Harbour with the eight metre motor cruiser, the Coastguard requested it relaunch to assist a sailing boat with engine failure near the entrance to the harbour.
A tow line was passed to the sailing boat and it was towed into the harbour.
Later at 5.15pm, the all weather lifeboat with a crew of six was launched to the report of a 26ft foot motor cruiser with power failure four miles south off Sovereign Harbour.
People on the boat called the Coastguard using a mobile telephone. At the scene, one of the lifeboat crew had to transfer over to the boat to raise the anchor.
The motor cruiser was then towed back to Sovereign Harbour.

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  • Last Updated: 12 May 2008 4:59 PM
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  • Location: Eastbourne
 
 

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