Launched 13:58, Rehoused 14:25 The Lifeboat was launched to assist a broken-down speed boat reported to be drifting near the entrance to the River Roach with two people on board and no anchor. The Lifeboat found the speedboat with one of her crew clinging on to one of the large steel buoys marking the electricity cable across the River Crouch just…

Launched 13:35,  Rehoused 15:13 The Lifeboat was launched to assist a yacht at Fambridge which had caught a rope trailing from a mooring buoy around her propellor.  The yacht was firmly attached to the buoy, so one of the lifeboat crew entered the water to try and untangle the rope without cutting it. After this had proved impossible, he cut the…

Launched 20:26, Rehoused 22:03 The lifeboat was paged during the crew’s summer barbeque alongside the lifeboat house. A yacht entering the River Crouch on her way to Burnham had reported an engine problem. The elderly couple on board were very tired after sailing the boat round from St Catherine’s Yacht Haven and the disabled engine meant that…

Launched 18:06, Rehoused 18:43 The Lifeboat was launched to assist a speedboat with a disabled outboard motor. She had hit something in the water, broken two blades off the propellor and sheered the hub drive. The Lifeboat crew took the 3 people from the casualty vessel onto the Lifeboat and towed their boat to Essex Marina from where they were…