CABIN CRUISER SAVED At 11.5 p.m. on nth September, 1965, the coastguard reported that he had seen a cabin cruiser run ashore, but that she had refloated. She went ashore for a second time a little later and burnt a red flare, so at 11.20 the life-boat Lucy Lavers, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in a fresh north-westerly wind, moderate sea and a flooding tide. She found the cabin cruiser Swallow of Preston, with a crew of three, one and a quarter miles off Rhyl, hah0 a mile east of the river. The Swallow was sinking quickly, but the life-boat took her in tow, put three men on board to pump her out, and brought her successfully to harbour.

The life-boat returned to her station at 1.45 a.m. on the i2th..