Four boys LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed Flint lifeboat station at 1225 on Sunday April 25, 1982, that four boys were stranded 500 yards off the shore in the River Dee. They had gone to fish from a bank off the Cob at Bagillt and had been cut by the fast-rising tide.

Three members of Flint lifeboat crew were already at the boathouse checking the D class inflatable lifeboat so, as maroons were fired, they were already getting out the boat. She was launched down the slipway at Flint at 1235, manned by Helmsman Terence Jacklin and Crew Members David Moore and Robert Forrester. She headed down river while Flint Coastguard mobile travelled by road to a vantage point at Bagillt.

When the lifeboat reached the boys, now waist deep, very cold and frightened, Crew Member Forrester entered the water to help them into the boat.

They were wrapped in survival sheets and landed on the slipway at Flint at 1300..