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Navy helicopter in tanker storm rescue

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A Royal Navy helicopter braved storm force 9 winds to rescue a man from a chemical tanker as gales battered shipping yesterday.

Falmouth Coastguard was contacted at 11.40am to reports that three crewmen needed to be medically evacuated from an Isle of Man-registered vessel.

The helicopter from RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall airlifted one of the men, who was unconscious, to Deriford Hospital in Plymouth but he later died. The other two casualties were flown to Treliske Hospital in Truro with suspected fractured bones.

The vessel was 13 nautical miles off the coast of Eddystone Lighthouse, on the Devon/Cornwall border when the incident happened.