Tenby RNLI’s lifeboat crew were twice alerted to potential emergencies in the locality over the weekend.

The inshore lifeboat was requested to launch at 6pm on Saturday, September 6, after the Coastguard received a call from a member of the public reporting that five people looked to be cut off by the tide at Lydstep Point.

The lifeboat was quickly on the water, and made best speed to Lydstep in a big swell brought on by the strong south-easterly winds.

Arriving on scene a short time later, the crew immediately spotted the people on the rocks, but they confirmed they were fishing and were in no danger, so the lifeboat was stood down.

On their return journey, the Coastguard alerted the crew to a person possibly in difficulty beneath the old Lifeboat station at Tenby, but after a search and with nobody reported missing, it was deemed a false alarm, so the boat returned to station, arriving at &pm.

Shortly after 9pm that night, the inshore lifeboat crew were once again paged, after the people on the rocks at Lydstep from the shout earlier in the evening called the Coastguard to say that they now required assistance.

With Tenby's all-weather lifeboat in Milford after the shout earlier in the day and the much smaller D-class unable to operate in the dark in such conditions without support, Angle all-weather lifeboat was requested to launch and assist and the inshore lifeboat would wait until Angle lifeboat was closer before launching.

As Angle lifeboat was passing St Govans and with the inshore lifeboat crew preparing to launch, members of Tenby's Coastguard rescue team on scene at Lydstep reported that the casualties had managed to get themselves to safety and were no longer in danger, so Angle lifeboat returned to station and the inshore lifeboat stood down from launching