Last weekend proved a busy one for Penarth RNLI lifeboat crew, as they responded to three emergencies in 24 hours.
On Friday 9th July, at around 5.30 pm, the volunteer crew was called along with the emergency services to go to the aid of an injured man on Penarth beach. The inshore lifeboat – helmed by Andy Vye Parminter and crewed by Ben Reynolds, Geraint Williams and Nathan Cummins – was tasked with transporting the casualty by sea from the place a man in his late 50s or early 60s, had fallen along to the slipway. Sadly the injured man subsequently passed away.
On Saturday 10th July, the smaller D class boat was called out just before 4pm, to respond to a motor cruiser that had run aground on the Cardiff side of Penarth pier. As the boat, helmed by Karl Lawrence and crewed by Mark Bow and Stu Jones, approached the boat, the crew discovered that one of the people on board the motor cruiser had suffered quite a serious cut to her arm. After the crew members gave medical assistance to the woman, they took the motor cruiser under tow to the safety of the barrage, where the injured woman was handed over to a waiting ambulance.
Just a few hours later, the boat, which by now had returned to the lifeboat station, was again launched. This time it was to go to the rescue of four people, a father and his three sons all aged under 10, who had become cut off by the tide at Lavernock Point. Helm Karl Lawrence and his crew of Jen Payne and Owain Davies, quickly made their way along the coast to the small group and landed the boat, making sure they were all safe and well. The four were then taken by the lifeboat to the shore at St Mary’s Well Bay where the Coastguard was waiting for them.
