Tenby RNLI lifeboats assist person taken ill on Caldey Island

Both Tenby RNLI lifeboats were launched shortly before 1.30pm on Tuesday, November 10, following a request for assistance from the Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust with the evacuation of a person who had taken ill on Caldey Island.

The boats quickly made the two and a half mile journey over to the island in choppy seas, where, due to the state of the tide, the inshore lifeboat was used to dropped the Paramedics ashore.

They were accompanied by lifeboat crew in case a carry out was required.

A short while later, that casualty was assisted aboard the inshore lifeboat, before being transferred to the all-weather lifeboat for the journey back to Tenby, from where he was taken to hospital by ambulance.