Tenby’s all-weather lifeboat approaches the jetty on Caldey Island in response to a monk who had been taken ill. PICTURE: RNLI (39308089)
A MERCY mission to a monk with chest pains on Caldey Island was carried out by Tenby’s lifeboats last Wednesday, September 16.
The lifeboatmen reached the island within six minutes, and the all-weather lifeboat pulled alongside the jetty and dropped off a volunteer crew member and a paramedic, who went to see the monk in the monastery.
The monk was driven down to the jetty and taken aboard the lifeboat for the short trip back to the lifeboat station where he was met by the ambulance crew to be taken to hospital to check out the cause of his pain.
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