Beaumaris Lifeboat Services

A vessel had suffered engine failureand was at anchor between Bangor Pier and Menai Bridge.  The skipper called for assistance when the anchor started to drag.  Beaumaris Lifeboat was launched to render assistance and towed the vessel back to Porth Daniel.

A member of public reported 2 Kayaks apparently struggling between Penmon and Puffin Island. Beaumaris Lifeboat launched and located the Kayakers who reported that they were not in difficulties. The lifeboat left them to continue with their Kayaking.

Beaumaris RNLI was called out at 18.20 in response to two red flares seen between Penmaenmawr and Friar’s Bay and on arrival at the scene found two jet skiers from Colwyn Bay who had run aground on a sandbank.    As the tide would not be in till 22.40 for the jet skies to refloat and because the jet skiers had no form of communication with them or lighting on the skis, one of the RNLI’s volunteer crew disembarked the lifeboat and remained with the jet skiers while the lifeboat returned to the boathouse.   When the tide had come in the lifeboat was relaunched, picked up its crew member and escorted the jet skiers to Beaumaris and was back at the boathouse at midnight where the skis were left overnight while the skiers returned to Colwyn Bay by taxi.   The jet skiers returned Sunday 2 October, to collect their skis.

The volunteer crew of Beaumaris RNLI were called out by the coastguard at 13.30 this afternoon to assist two groups of kayakers who were experiencing difficulties due to the weather conditions.  The first group of kayakers consisting of five school pupils and a teacher were offered assistance back to shore at Menai Bridge, while the second group of kayakers were found already safely ashore at Glyn Garth. 

The Lifeboat was launched to render assistance to a motor cruiser which had suffered engine failure in the Menai Strait near Caernarfon.  The vessel was towed to Caernarfon and was safely put alongside.

The lifeboat was diverted to render assistance to a small vessel that had suffered engine failure close to the pier at Menai Bridge.  The casualty vessel was towed safely to port.

The Lifeboat was launched to rescue 3 fishermen who were cut off by the
rising tide near Nelson's Column in the Menai Strait. They were put ashore safely.

A Motor cruiser ran aground and damaged both drive shafts and
engine. The Lifeboat towed the vessel to a safe mooring in Friars Bay.

The Coastguard requested a launch as a diver was suspected to be in difficulties, he surfaced in a pool adjacent to tidal rip near Brittania Bridge and was unable to get ashore.  The lifeboat recovered the diver and landed him ashore at Menai Bridge.

The Lifeboat was launched to a Kayak in trouble off Penmon point. A local charter boat recovered a person from the water, the lifeboat brought kaywaker ashore and then returned to collect the vessel and bring it back to the station. The kayaker's dry suit had not been zipped up before entering water and so he got into difficulties.

A yacht had run out of fuel and the skipper was having difficulty in sailing from the PuffinIsland area into the MenaiStraits due to the adverse wind direction.  The lifeboat was launched to render assistance and the yacht was towed to the casualty mooring in Friar's Bay.  The crew were taken ashore.

The unmanned tender found floating near Puffin Island, which was taken ashore by the Beaumaris lifeboatearlier in the afternoon belonged to this yacht.

The Coastguard reported that an small open boat was drifting close to Puffin Island with nobody on-board.  The lifeboat was launched toinvestigate.  The open boat was found by the lifeboat crew and towed to the beach at Penmon Point and handed over to the Coastguard shore patrol. It was thought that the boat had broken free from its mooring and may have been drifting for some time.

The RNLI at Beaumaris was called out when a passenger cruiser returning from a trip hit Beaumaris Pier. The volunteer lifeboat crew launched the inshore lifeboat to take an injured female passenger who was unable to walk off the cruiser and bring her ashore to the waiting paramedics and ambulance, so she could be taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd.

Beaumaris RNLI was called out to a 28ft yacht between Bangor Pier and Menai Bridge that had something caught around the propeller. On arrival at the scene the volunteer lifeboat crew found the skipper of the yacht had managed to pick up a mooring, so the lifeboat crew boarded the yacht and were able to free the propeller. The yacht then proceeded to Conwy while the lifeboat returned to the lifeboat station.

In the second incident of the day, the RNLI at Beaumaris were called out to Ynys Gorad Goch in the Menai Strait following the report of an injured man on the rocks. On arrival at the scene the volunteer lifeboat crew were joined by two paramedics who immediately started to treat the casualty. As the tide was receding it was felt it was too slippy to carry the casualty over the rocks to the lifeboat so the SAR helicopter was called out who then transported the man to Ysbyty Gwynedd.

Beaumaris Lifeboat was called out to tow a 26ft powerboat with engine failure from Beaumaris to Gallows Point.

Beaumaris Lifeboat was called out to a Trimaran that had run aground off Penmon Point. The boat with two people and a dog on board had been anchored overnight at the Point but the change in wind today had resulted in the anchor dragging with the boat running aground on the beach. The lifeboat towed the boat off the beach and took it to a drying mooring near Bangor Pier.

The Beaumaris RNLI were called out to rescue a capsized tender with two people in the water. The couple from Stockport, Cheshire had launched their yacht earlier in the day from Beaumaris and moored up in the Menai Strait by The Gazelle. They were in their tender on their way back to Beaumaris when it capsized.