Launched 22:45, Rehoused 00:30 Both Lifeboats were launched to investigate a red flare sighted to the East of an informant in Canewdon. The Atlantic crew put up a white parachute flare from the entrance to the Violet, which the Coastguard said that the first informant said was the right height but rather too far to the South. The D Class which had…

Launched 13:50, Rehoused 14:50 Thames Coastguard rang the station just as the helmsman was about to report that the lifeboat was refuelled and ready for service after her previous call. They requested that the Lifeboat should take over the tow of a disabled vessel near the Inner Crouch Buoy from a yacht club safety boat which needed to return to…

Launched 12:40, Rehoused 13:30 The Atlantic B 755 was launched to assist a 4.5 metre RIB drifting near the Inner Crouch Buoy after losing the propellor from her outboard motor. When the Lifeboat arrived on scene the casualty was already under tow by the Harbour Authority Launch which had just pulled her off the mud to the south west of the Crouch…

Launched 14:30, Rehoused 15:35 Burnham’s Atlantic was requested to rendevous with Southend Lifeboat on the Thames side of Havengore Bridge and take over a tow. This was a small outboard powered angling boat with a broken down motor which they had towed in from the S W Swin. The tow was transferred about a mile south of the bridge and B 755 towed…