Beaumaris lifeboat tasked to paddleboarder suspected to be in difficulties
At 3.30 pm on Wednesday 12 April 2023 the volunteer crew members of the Beaumaris lifeboat received a page from U.K. Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre at Holyhead to investigate a report of a paddleboarder in difficulties in the Menai Strait.
The Beaumaris Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat Annette Mary Liddington with her volunteer crew was in the process of being launched when at 3.36 pm a report was received that the paddleboarder had made it to the shore and no assistance was required from the lifeboat.
Consequently, in this instance the lifeboat did not need to be refuelled and cleaned. Thus, enabling the crew to depart the station by 3.45 pm.
A RNLI spokesman said: ‘The members of the public who made the calls to the Coastguard are to be commended as we would rather launch to a possible incident, than for it to develop into something more serious'.
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