Launched 13:55, Rehoused 14:30 One of the station DLAs was on the Burnham waterfront when he saw Kapitan Ryntsyn, a 3000+ tonne Russian timber ship, veer out of the main channel and hit two boats moored off Priors Boatyard.  As somebody was known to be working on one of the boats, he paged the Lifeboat crew for an immediate launch.  Arriving on…

Launched 16:35, Rehoused 17:45 A 75 launched to assist a 19′ Orkney Fisher with two adults and a 10 year old child on board.  A heavy fog had come down while they were fishing and they were unable to start their outboard to return home.  The Lifeboat, with four crew on account of the poor visibility, found them about a mile to the east of…

Launched 17:09, Rehoused 18:45 Both boats launched to search for a wildfowler reported missing on Bridgemarsh Island.  He had left his companion about 30 minutes previously to fetch their dinghy and not returned. The Atlantic 75 sighted one of the wildfowlers and put a crew member ashore, the other one then came over on seeing the crewman’s…

Launched 13:05, Rehoused 13:52 Launched to assist a 24′ sea angling boat anchored in Burnham Fairway with a reported machinery failure, on arrival the LB crew found the vessel with her engine running and no indication of any mechanical problem. However her anchor was fast on the ground tackle of a trot of morings and had resisted all attempts to…