In order to accommodate the new Shannon-class lifeboat, a new boathouse was built on the south end of the promenade at Craig-y-Don.

Because of the weather and tidal conditions, plus the depths of water, vicious waves can quickly build up around the Orme and Liverpool Bay.

Crew member Tim James was put aboard and spent an hour and a half, frequently submerged by waves, freeing the boat from the nets.

[4] A couple of years earlier, the inshore boat was launched to the aid of a humpback whale that had become tangled in ropes and a buoy off Rhos-on-Sea.

Local residents around the existing lifeboat station complained of shaking every time a launch was undertaken.