Nine rescued A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY, With One man on board, was seen by HM Coastguard at 2018 on Sunday, July 4, some three miles north east of Beaumaris lifeboat station, drifting out to sea with the freshening offshore wind and ebbing tide. Visibility was good and there was a slight sea.

Beaumaris ILB, the Atlantic 21 Blue Peter II, launched four minutes later, came up with the inflatable dinghy at 2028, took her in tow and landed the man at Penmaen-Mawr Stone Jetty.

During the return passage to station, Blue Peter H was asked to go to the helpof the 18' cabin cruiser Ondine, with eight people on board. Ondine's engines had failed and she was leaking badly from a fractured water pump. The ILB took her in tow to Beaumaris where the survivors were landed and Ondine placed on a safe mooring. Blue Peter //returned to her station and was rehoused at 2300..