MRCC Yarmouth called Hunstanton Coastguard to ask for a crew to search Thornham Marsh for two missing people. The request was cancelled after a few minutes.

During a routine patrol, Hunstanton Coastguard team members found a suspicious container on Heacham beach. The discovery triggered a chemical incident alert involving fire crews from Sandringham, Snettisham, Heacham and King’s Lynn, and senior officers from Norwich and Thetford areas.

After transferring the container to the car park at Snettisham at the request of the fire service, the Coastguard team stood down at 15:40.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a vehicle cut off by the tide. They found a car awash at Parish Green, Thornham. The occupants had been able to walk back to safety.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a kite surfer got into difficulties near Old Hunstanton golf club. Hunstanton Lifeboat was launched, but another kite surfer helped the casualty to shore.

A man in his fifties had a lucky escape from the incoming tide after he was nearly trapped on a sandbank around 1.5km from the shore. The man, who appeared to have been drinking, made his own way back to safety, but not before the Hunstanton Lifeboat had launched at the request of Hunstanton Coastguard team members at the scene.

Hunstanton Coastguard returned to Snettisham to check that the previous day’s lost vessel was safely back afloat on the morning tide. A member of the public helped the vessel return to a mooring at Snettisham, after which the Coastguards returned the boat’s owner to his family caravan.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a 10m sailing craft with three people on board, including a 12-year-old girl, became lost in darkness in the Wash. The boat was poorly equipped, with out-of-date charts and no radio, and had run aground earlier in the day. The crew did have a mobile phone, and used this to alert Hunstanton Coastguard. The Coastguards used their vehicle’s lights to act as a visual marker, and conned Hunstanton Lifeboat onto the casualty. Two of the crew returned to Hunstanton, while the boat’s owner insisted on remaining on board for the night.

MRCC Yarmouth asked Hunstanton Coastguard to investigate a missing canoeist. Before the team arrived on scene, however, they learned that the man was safely back on shore. They carried on to Brancaster to collect details of the incident.

MRCC Yarmouth phoned Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a kite surfer in trouble. They found the male kite surfer safe and well after part of his rig had failed.

MRCC Yarmouth asked Hunstanton Coastguard to scan the sea from Heacham to Snettisham after a vessel was reported in trouble. The team saw nothing of concern and stood down at 13:30.

MRCC Yarmouth tasked Hunstanton Coastguard to attend an explosive device found on Thornham Marsh. An EOD team carried out a controlled explosion at 19:00.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report that an elderly man was missing from a care home in Hunstanton. The team searched the clifftop, and the beach from the cliffs to the powerboat ramp. An ambulance crew found the casualty in Hunstanton, and the Coastguard team stood down at 23:00.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a catamaran capsized near the powerboat ramp and a man fell into the water. Two men in a dinghy went to help. Hunstanton lifeboat brought the catamaran’s two crew members back to shore and helped to right the vessel, after which the crew was able to sail it back to the sailing club.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after an object was spotted on the beach. Team members discovered that it was a barrel half-full of water. They recovered it to the powerboat ramp and arranged for the Council to dispose of it.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of people cut off by the incoming tide. They discovered a couple in a Land Rover and waited while a recovery truck pulled them to safety.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a sailing boat was reported adrift. The team learned from a member of the public that the boat had drifted from near the fairground towards the cliffs. Hunstanton lifeboat crew spoke to the boat’s crew to check that they were not in difficulties.

MRCC Yarmouth asked Hunstanton Coastguard to go to Holkham Gap, where a 7-year-old child was reported missing. Wells Coastguard was also called out. The Hunstanton team used their vehicle to search the shoreline and found the missing girl close to Wells lifeboat station.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a kite surfer in the water. The team assessed the situation and left a Coastguard team member from Brancaster in charge.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a missing child, who was soon found safe and well.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard when a kite surfer was injured on the beach. Team members used their collapsible stretcher to carry the 18-year-old man to a waiting ambulance.

Working with the police, Hunstanton Coastguard searched the beach for a missing child. The little girl was soon found safe and well.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a missing child at Heacham. On arriving at the station the team was stood down.

Hunstanton Coastguard continued their busy afternoon with a second callout to a missing child, who was quickly located.

With the help of Hunstanton lifeboat they then investigated an object in the water that turned out to be a person fishing, and followed this with a seafront patrol.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a missing child. On arriving at the station, the team learned that the child had been found.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of two people stranded by the incoming tide at Scolt Head. They found the two female casualties, equipped with a rubber ring and a body board, on a rapidly disappearing sandbank 200m off Brancaster beach. Hunstanton lifeboat attended, but the casualties were able to make their own way to shore.

Hunstanton Coastguard joined police to search the beach for a missing person reported to be in a distressed state. The police later found the casualty.

Hunstanton Coastguard team members helped an ambulance crew carry an 85-year-old woman off the beach.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of an elderly man missing in the area of the seafront. Coastguards liaised with beach patrol officers and the police, who confirmed that the casualty had been found.

The team then observed an inflatable dinghy with three youths on board, checking that it returned safely to shore. At 14:05 they were called by Yarmouth about a missing child, who was quickly found.

A report of an inflatable dinghy adrift off Old Hunstanton brought a Coastguard team and Hunstanton Lifeboat to the beach. The lifeboat crew recovered an inflatable dolphin which the first informant confirmed was the object they had been watching.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a hot air balloon going down into the sea off Old Hunstanton. At the Le Strange Arms Hotel, the team learned that at least one airborne Chinese lantern had been launched that evening, and suspected that one of these had given rise to the balloon report.

Nevertheless, they searched the beach between Hunstanton and Holme. They found nothing, and stood down at 23:00. MRCC Yarmouth received at least four other calls reporting balloons in trouble, and a helicopter was on standby at one point.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a family of four became cut off by the tide on Scolt Head after walking out from Brancaster beach. They had been found by the Scolt Head warden and taken to a hut.

Hunstanton RNLI hovercraft rescued the casualties and their dog, but was hard put to make headway against a strong wind. In difficult beach conditions, two people in the earliest stages of hypothermia were transferred to the Coastguard vehicle, where they soon warmed up. No medical attention was required, and the family returned safely to their car.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a kite surfer suffered a head injury. Coastguards dressed the wound and called an ambulance; a paramedic later decided that no further treatment was needed.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard to help an ambulance crew recover an injured kite surfer from the beach.

Coastguards from Hunstanton and Brancaster joined Hunstanton lifeboat after a kite surfer was reported in trouble. Brancaster fishing vessel Katie Louise picked up the kite, and the owner was subsequently found on the beach safe and well.

Hunstanton Coastguard team members used their collapsible stretcher to help an ambulance crew recover a casualty from the beach.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a swimmer got into difficulties towing a dinghy containing two children back to shore. Hunstanton RNLI hovercraft crew rescued the casualty and gave urgent medical help before he was transferred to a waiting ambulance. The Air Ambulance was tasked to the scene but stood down before arriving.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a dinghy was reported drifting. Arriving on scene, they found that a family member had swum out to retrieve the craft. No medical assistance was required.

MRCC Yarmouth called Hunstanton Coastguard after a Laser dinghy was reported overdue from the sailing club. The RNLI lifeboat and hovercraft were on scene, plus helicopter Rescue 125, which had been on exercise at Mundesley. The missing vessel, which had no radio, compass or mobile phone, was located by the Coastguard and escorted back to shore by the RNLI teams.

Hunstanton Coastguard joined colleagues from Brancaster and Wells when a dinghy with three people on board was reported adrift off the golf club. By the time the Coastguards arrived, the occupants of the boat had been able to walk safely to shore.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a boat ran aground off Snettisham sailing club. Hunstanton RNLI hovercraft crew brought the occupants of the boat back to shore and anchored the vessel.

The Coastguard team met the boat owner that evening and stood by while he recovered the boat with the aid of a personal watercraft.

After meeting the military bomb disposal team, Hunstanton Coastguard searched the beach thoroughly. Nothing was found.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of ordnance near one of the groynes on the sea front. The team searched the area and concluded that the item had been covered by the tide. They arranged an appointment with the bomb disposal team for early the next morning.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard to help Sutton Bridge Coastguard locate a missing woman. After liaising with police, the Coastguard teams searched the east bank of the river Nene. They found the casualty and waited for an ambulance to take her to hospital.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of an inflatable dinghy drifting off Heacham. After locating the first informant, the Coastguards observed the empty dinghy through binoculars. They reported its exact position in case of any more reports, and checked the promenade in case the dinghy’s owner was there, but found no-one, and returned to base.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of an inflatable dinghy in difficulties about 400m offshore. They found the inflatable, containing a 30-year-old man and his girlfriend, being helped ashore by the man’s sister. Once the casualties were safely ashore, Coastguards gave them some safety advice.

Out on a routine patrol, Hunstanton Coastguard was asked by a member of the public to administer minor first aid to a female casualty at the Sailing Club. Afterwards, they completed their patrol and returned to base.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report that a four-year-old child was missing on Brancaster beach. By the time the team arrived on scene, the child had been found.

The team was immediately tasked to Old Hunstanton where another person was missing. This person had turned up by the time the Coastguards arrived, so they carried out a safety patrol back along the beach as far as Hunstanton powerboat ramp.

A 16-year-old kite surfer suffered a back injury when he left the ground, landed badly and was hit by his buggy. The position was reported to be on the Holme side of the lifeboat station, about 15 minutes’ walk away. MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard, who located the casualty and helped ambulance paramedics. The Air Ambulance took the casualty to Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a watercraft ran out of fuel between Heacham and Hunstanton. The craft, with two young people on board, was towed in to Heacham North Beach at 20:45. Coastguards took details and checked that the pair were safe and well.

MRCC Yarmouth phoned Hunstanton Coastguard after a member of the public reported seeing a red flare off Holme. Three team members located the informant at the Le Strange Arms, and then checked Holme beach. Nothing further was seen and the team stood down at 23:00.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a man fell on a boat and broke his leg. Four members of the team attended to help ambulance paramedics. The Air Ambulance took the casualty to hospital in Norwich.

Hunstanton and Sutton Bridge Coastguard teams were paged after a boat was reported to have turned over on the river Great Ouse. The location was given as near the power station, but it was not clear whether this referred to Sutton Bridge or King’s Lynn.

The boat turned out to have capsized in the middle of the river at Saddlebow, near the sailing club, with its mast stuck in the mud. The crew of two people had swum to shore and left without telling anyone. MRCC Yarmouth stood down the rescue effort, which also included an RAF rescue helicopter, two fire engines and Hunstanton lifeboat.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a missing and potentially suicidal woman. Large numbers of police and a police helicopter were on scene.

Five members of the Hunstanton team, accompanied by North Norfolk Coastguard Sector Manager Tony Garbutt, searched the dunes from the lifeboat station towards Holme. The police found the casualty near the cliffs.

Two members of Hunstanton Coastguard gave first aid to a man who had been hit in the face by a winch at the power boat club.

Hunstanton Coastguard was asked to investigate a report of a car cut off by the tide at Thornham harbour. The driver and passengers had managed to escape, leaving the car high and dry, and were preparing to return to their vehicle after the tide had turned.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a kite surfer in trouble. They arrived on scene to find that the elderly man was simply having difficulty getting his kite out of the water.

MRCC Yarmouth called Hunstanton Coastguard after a boat was seen drifting downriver. The police followed it until it went aground near the point. One report said that three people were on board. Arriving at the scene, the team relayed radio communications between the control room at Yarmouth, Hunstanton RNLI hovercraft, and the police. The hovercraft crew reported a single set of footprints leaving the boat. After securing the boat with stakes and ropes, Coastguards and RNLI personnel searched the marsh and the sea bank for 45 minutes, but found no sign of the boat’s occupants. The operation stood down shortly after 2:00 am.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard to assist the RNLI with an exhausted kite surfer at the water’s edge. Coastguards used their vehicle to transport the casualty to the RNLI boathouse to rendezvous with a paramedic. After a check over by an Air Ambulance doctor, the casualty went to hospital by ambulance.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of a possible missing person at King’s Lynn. While the Coastguard team was en route for Lynn, RAF helicopter Rescue 128 reported that the person had been found. The Coastguards returned to base.

MRCC Yarmouth paged Hunstanton Coastguard after a report of distress flares off Old Hunstanton. In good visibility and with many people about, the team searched from Old Hunstanton to The Firs at Holme, but found nothing. Hunstanton RNLI crew reported that a member of the public might have been letting off fireworks on the beach.