Launched 11:20, Rehoused 13:00 The Lifeboat was launched to assist a 30’ powerboat that was anchored close to the Outer Crouch buoy with a ruptured oil pipe. This had preventing her owner from starting her engines and so the Lifeboat secured a tow and took her to a place of safety before returning to the station to be refuelled and made ready…

Launched 20:03, Rehoused 23:45 The Atlantic 75 ‘Brandy Hole’ Lifeboat launched to assist a 19’ sailing boat with two people on board which was aground near the North East Maplin.  The casualty managed to get off unassisted while the Lifeboat was en route but went aground again after the Lifeboat had been released to return to…

Launched 21:23, Rehoused 22:50 The Atlantic 75 B733 ‘Brandy Hole’ towed a large motor yacht that was unable to start her engines on account of an electrical failure to a mooring in Burnham…

Launched 04:19, Rehoused 05:45 D672, IB1 Lifeboat, launched to assist a 30’ angling vessel which had run aground shortly after high water on a spring tide.  There were four people on board and they were worried that she might fall over as the tide ebbed and/or fill with water as the tide rose as the bow could be higher than the…