Felixstowe/Harwich: Rescue teams search North Sea for two people believed to have fallen from passenger ferry


Rescue teams are currently searching for two people believed to have fallen from a passenger ferry as it departed Harwich Harbour.


Stephen Read, harbourmaster at Felixstowe Ferry, said the teams were currently searching two people who came off the Stena Britannica passenger ferry as it headed out to sea.
Mr Read, is part of a search party including, two lifeboats another two inshore lifeboats, a pilot cutter and a helicopter.
The search is currently being conducted about a mile off Cobbold’s Point at Felixstowe and heading out as far as the Cork Sands.
Walton and Frinton RNLI were called to join the rescue efforts led by Thames Coastguard at around 9.45am.
Stena Line is currently preparing a statement on the incident, as is Thames Coastguard.

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Uploaded on 26 February, 2014
Footage of the search and rescue operation off Felixstowe for two men who jumped off the morning Stena Line service to Hook of Holland. It is believed that these men were foreign nationals who had been refused entry in Harwich and who had been sent back to Holland on the ferry. The operation was stood down after the only trace of them was two leather jackets found in the sea.
We’ll put more news here if we find out what happened to them.

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