Bembridge RNLI’s All-Weather Lifeboat medivacs a casualty on Christmas Eve
'RNLB Alfred Albert Williams' (Tamar All-Weather Lifeboat 16-17) was launched at the request of UK (Solent) Coastguard at around 11.40am to medivac a member of the crew of the 'Normand Pacific', which is involved in the IFA2 cable project, in the vicinity of Nab End, mid-Solent NE of the station.
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