D class, Tyne and X boat rescue fallen climber Holyhead's D class inflatable was called out at 1600 on 21 April to a man who had fallen 90ft from a cliff at North Stack.

The D class was taken through rough, surging 6ft to 8ft seas three times to accomplish the rescue: first to land a cliff rescue team member who had been transferred from a helicopter; then to land three members of the station's allweather lifeboat's crew by towing the Tyne's inflatable X boat ashore, and finally to tow off the X boat with the injured man aboard on a stretcher and transfer him to the Tyne. As the D class eased the X boat and survivor from the rocks two crew members entered the water to steady her.

Having made two more runs in through the hazardous seas to recover the rescue party the inflatable returned to her station at 1740..