Rhyl Inshore Lifeboat D-632 "Godfrey and Desmond Nall" services 2012 (latest service at top of page)
AWB = all-weather offshore Mersey-class lifeboat. ILB = D-Class Inshore lifeboat
14/5/2012. 1800. Both boats were launched to assist in the rescue of a woman in distress on Kinmel Bay beach, at the entrance to Rhyl’s harbour, on an area known as Horton’s Nose. The local coastguard volunteer team were also called to assist police recover the woman, who was face down in the water, about 20 metres out from the shore. The coastguard team had arrived just before, together with police officers; and the lifeboat crew assisted in calming the woman and administering oxygen. The woman appeared to be hypothermic, and the best course of action was to take her on board the inshore lifeboat, and transfer her into the harbour to waiting paramedics. The all-weather lifeboat was also on scene, and escorted the inshore boat in to the harbour. The RNLI crew of both boats then helped coastguards, police and ambulance personnel get the woman into an ambulance and she was taken under police charge to Glan Clwyd hospital. This was the first time the RNLI crews had worn the new lifejackets supplied by donations to the Rhyl station over the last 3 months. RNLI PRESS OFFICE ITEM AND PHOTO
9/5/2012. 1404. Holyhead Coastguard requested the ILB launch after they received numerous 999 calls regarding 1 or 2 people clinging to a dinghy off Rhos-on-Sea breakwater. The crew were launched within 3 minutes and were proceeding at full speed, getting to just west of Pensarn beach (about 3 miles from Rhos) when Holyhead coastguard called them to say they had launched Rhyl in error, and Llandudno had launched their ILB to the incident, as Rhos is usually served by Llandudno's boats. However, a local boatman had gone out from Rhos harbour and recovered the boat and people, and so Rhyl were released to return to station, and Llandudno proceeded as they were only 4 minutes away. Rhyl's ILB returned to station at 1435.
7/5/2012. 1536 The ILB was launched to assist police with a person threatening self- harm on the new harbour wall at Rhyl. On scene, there were no person or police in sight, but a member of the public told the crew the police had the person in custody and had left the scene. The ILB returned to station by 1555.
24/4/2012.1429 Both boats were launched after an 18' foot cabin cruiser with 4 persons on board, reported their engine had failed off Kinmel Bay. As the crew were assembling, it could be seen that the boat was being blown to the shore, and so the ILB was launched first, backed up by the ALB. The ILB took the boat in tow until they were far enough offshore for the ALB to close. As there were so many on board the casualty, the offer of transferring to the ALB was given, to lighten the load when entering Rhyl harbour, due to the swift waters there during the harbour reconstruction. The offer was declined, and so the ILB towed the boat alongside, with the ALB following up. Due to the current, the ILB was only making about 4 knots, but managed to get the casualty on to moorings in the harbour, and then both boats returned to station by 1550.
2/4/2012. 0155 The ILB crew were paged to assist North Wales police for a missing person at Pensarn beach. As the crew were going to launch, Holyhead Coastguard reported the person had been found safe and well ashore. The ILB was stood down, returning to station at 0206. Classed as a standby.
10/2/2012, 0707. Holyhead Coastguard paged the ILB to launch after a member of the public reported a person in the water off Barkby beach, Prestatyn, waving their arms. the local Coastguard team from Rhyl were also alerted. The ILB was launched and en route when the coastguard arrived on scene and found a kayaker, about 400m out, paddling back to shore. It appeared the man had gone for an early morning paddle, and had not notified the coastguards, and had no radio communication. The actions of his paddles appeared to be arms waving from onlookers on shore. The ILB arrived as the man was being interviewed by the coastguards, and as no further assistance was required, returned to station, being ready for service at 0750.
0850 Holyhead Coastguard were again contacted to report a man going into the water off the boathouse, to get his dog which was on a sandbank about 100m off shore. The pagers were activated as a precautionary measure. A crewman went to site in the station's Landrover, and got on scene just as the man and a bait-digger were getting the dog, up to their knees in water. The crewman waited until all were safe ashore, and then took a local coastguard to scene to interview the man. The incident was closed at 0858, classed as a shore-based service.