Beaumaris RNLI volunteers respond to incident during Open Day

The day started at 5.52am on Saturday (23 August 2025), when volunteer crew members received a page from HM Coastguard relating to an incident in the Bangor to Menai Bridge area. Fortunately, the matter was resolved ashore and the lifeboat returned to station at 6.31am, where it was refuelled, cleaned and prepared for the next service call.

Although an earlier than anticipated start, the volunteers at the station decided that they may as well prepare the boathouse and area in readiness for the Beaumaris Lifeboat Open Day. The day’s event then proceeded more or less as planned, including shore-based demonstrations and the first two afloat demonstrations.

However just prior to the third launch, news was received that someone in their sixties had fallen from the promenade on to some rocks. Some of the volunteer crew that had being preparing for the third launch immediately proceeded on foot to the casualty. In addition, a couple of the Penmon Coastguard Rescue Team volunteers came with a stretcher to the scene.

Once the person had been placed on the stretcher the Coastguard and RNLI volunteers, which included Stormy Stan (the RNLI’s mascot), carried the stretcher to the crew changing room in the boathouse.

Whilst this was going on and after some reworking of the crew involved in the launch, the lifeboat carried out the third afloat demonstration launching only a few minutes behind the advertised time.

Casualty care was undertaken at the boathouse pending the arrival of an ambulance and paramedics. The casualty was then transferred into the care of the ambulance personnel and taken to hospital.

A RNLI spokesperson said ‘Saturday was certainly a busy and eventful day for all the volunteers here at Beaumaris RNLI. We would like to wish the casualty who fell a speedy recovery and thank you to our fellow Coastguard volunteers for their assistance.

‘We are delighted to say that inclusive of a donation of £1542.90 from Boat Fishing U.K., it is anticipated that this year’s open day will generate in the region of £5 K for the RNLI

‘Thank you to everyone who came to support the open day – every penny and pound raised enables us to continue to train our crews, launch our lifeboats and save lives at sea.’

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