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RNLI rescue man from 10-metre angling boat four miles off Dungeness Point.

By: Sam Lennon slennon@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 00:00, 06 November 2015

Updated: 10:43, 06 November 2015

A lifeboat crew rushed to aid a man who collapsed on an angling boat at sea.

It was called out by Dover Coastguard at 9.05am yesterday to rescue the man four miles southwest of Dungeness Point.

The casualty brought ashore in an RNLI rescue at Dungeness. Picture by Judith Richardson, RNLI.


The Dungeness lifeboat The Morrell arrived and the incident was treated as a medical emergency.

The patient was transferred by stretcher from his 10-metre boat onto The Morrell and brought ashore.

The casualty, who had collapsed on an angling boat, about to be taken to hospital by ambulance. Picture by Judith Richardson, RNLI.


A land crew then took him to a waiting ambulance and he was from there conveyed to Ashford’s William Harvey Hospital.

The Dungeness lifeboat The Morrell


Coxswain Stuart Adams said: “Our volunteer crew did a great job in difficult conditions.”

South East Coast Ambulance Service said that the victim had at one stage been unconsciousness but revived on the way back to shore.

Paramedics promptly assessed him onshore and then took him to hospital.

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