Launched 14:14, Rehoused 15:20  The Atlantic 75 B 733 Lifeboat was launched to assist a 22′ Bayliner cruiser which was anchored near the Outer Crouch Buoy with suspected machinery failure.    On further investigation by the crew it turned out to be a broken gearbox, so the Lifeboat towed the boat back to Burnham Yacht Harbour to be…

Launched 00:50, Rehoused 03:20 Both lifeboats were launched following a number of reports that flares had been sighted to the south of the River Roach.  Both boats conducted an intensive search of the Roach and all the small creeks around Potton Island.  One of the informants told the Coastguard that white flares launched by the Lifeboats and a…

Launched 15:12, Rehoused 17:50 B 733 launched in response to a report that a fishing boat had picked two people from the water after their 19′ Sandhopper dayboat had been caught aback and swamped by a sudden wind shift beneath a line squall.  The crew took both men on the Lifeboat and then towed their boat alongside the Lifeboat to Rice and Cole’…

Launched 15:12, Rehoused 17:50 The Atlantic 75 Lifeboat launched to assist a 28′ cruising catamaran with a failed engine, which was anchored close to the Ray Channel Buoy.  The Lifeboat crew found that the fuel suction filter in the catamaran’s fuel tank was blocked and, considering that she would have difficulty sailing to Burnham with little…