The lifeboat launched following a 999 call to Thames Coastguard reporting an inflatable dinghy off the Long Beach struggling to make headway against the wind and tide, with people in the water trying to assist.

When the lifeboat arrived on scene, the dinghy had been able to reach a moored barge, and two people who had been in the water were climbing aboard.

The inflatable, and two female occupants, were taken aboard the lifeboat and landed ashore at the boathouse, whilst the remaining four members of the group made their own way ashore in their dinghy.

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