Early Morning Call-Out for Rhyl’s Lifeboat Crew

The volunteer Lifeboat crew where awakened from their sleep at 12:58am to reports of a 38ft motor boat broken down and drifting into the beach somewhere near Talacre.

Both lifeboats were launched at 01:23am and proceeded to the area to look for the casualty. With the Inshore Lifeboat arriving on-scene first and locating the disabled vessel, they quickly took them under tow and brought them into deeper water away from the dangers of the beach.

The tow was then transferred to the larger more powerful All-Weather Lifeboat for the longer trip back to Rhyl Harbour, arriving there at 03:30am.

Once the casualty vessel had been secured and handed over to the awaiting Rhyl Coastguard Team, the Lifeboats returned to station by 5am.

Paul Archer-Jones duty Coxswain said “This call shows another example of the fantastic teamwork between all crew on both boats, the shore crew and the coastguard. We train regularly for moments such as these and I would like to express my gratitude to all crew members and Rhyl Coastguard personnel for what ended up as a very successful rescue".

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