Submitted by Mike Smith00 on Mon, 27/09/2021 - 10:38

Date of Incident:

12/09/2021

Station:

NCI Folkestone

Incident Summary:

Unmanned dinghy seen, drifting SW. HMCG advised, RNLI tasked to recover. NIC conned lifeboat onto dinghy. Unable to recover, so dinghy abandoned. Later recovered by local FV.

RNLI:

Yes

Initiated:

NCI

MCA:

Yes

MCA No.:

033053

Casualty Type:

Manual Craft (rowing)

Cause of Incident:

Vessel - Abandoned, derelict or adrift

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