Launched 16:29, Rehoused 17:43  The ILB Lifeboat D-672 was launched to assist an 18’ sailing vessel reported to be aground with three people on board, in the approaches to the Ray Channel.  The ILB found nothing in the area that answered the description of the casualty despite it’s having been seen by the Burnham Lifeboat on it’s way to…

Launched 16:02, Rehoused 18:10 B-733 was launched to assist a 30’ power boat on passage from Ipswich to London that had suffered a mechanical failure on both engines in the region of the East Swin.  The Lifeboat found the boat with four people on board, lying to her anchor and put a crew member on board for the tow back to…

Launched 16:35, Rehoused 18:35  D-672 was launched to assist two people who had capsized in a wayfarer dinghy and been swept by the tide under a wharf with two timber ships lying either side of it. The people from the dinghy had got onto the wharf by the time the Lifeboat arrived and were found to be unhurt other than a few cuts and bruises,…

Launched 15:20, Rehoused 15:55   Thames Coastguard requested B-733, the Atlantic 75 Lifeboat to attend an incident where a man had been thrown out of a skiboat that had hit a pontoon.  While the Lifeboat crew were assembling, the Coastguard received information that the man was not hurt and therefore rang the station by landline to…