Both of Tenby RNLI’s lifeboats were requested to launch shortly before 8.30 am on Bank Holiday Monday (May 5), following a request from the Welsh Ambulance Service for assistance in getting to Caldey Island to retrieve a pregnant lady that needed to return to the mainland.

The inshore lifeboat was first to arrive and dropped crew members ashore to locate the lady and provide an update on her condition for the paramedic who was on her way to the island onboard the all-weather lifeboat.

Also tasked was Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 187 from St Athan.

Due to the state of the tide, once at the island, the all-weather lifeboat transferred the paramedic and her equipment to the inshore lifeboat, which then dropped her ashore on the island.

She was then taken to the patient and was soon met by the paramedic from the helicopter, which had also now arrived.

Once the patient had been assessed, it was decided that the most comfortable way to get her off the island was by helicopter, rather than have to swap from the inshore lifeboat to the all-weather lifeboat and then make the journey in choppy seas back to Tenby.

With the patient safely in the air and on the way to hospital, the lifeboats were stood down to return to station, arriving at 10.30 am.