Bundoran Lifeboat Launches as Paddle Boarders are Blown Out to Sea
9th June 2021
Bundoran RNLI’s inshore lifeboat in action
Credit: RNLI/Bundoran
BundoranRNLI in Co Donegal were requested to launch on Tuesday evening (8 June) to reports of two paddle boarders being blown out to sea off Mermaid’s Cove in north Co Sligo.
The emergency call was made just after 6pm to Malin Head Coast Guard who immediately paged the Bundoran lifeboat volunteers. Within minutes the inshore lifeboat William Henry Liddington set off with four crew on board.
The Sligo-based Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 118 was also tasked to the scene, where the lifeboat crew assisted the two paddle boarders back to shore and assessed their wellbeing.
Bundoran Lifeboat Assists in Recovery of Sunken Vessel off Killybegs
23rd December 2020
File image of Bundoran RNLI’s inshore lifeboat William Henry Liddington
Credit: RNLI/Liam Bromley
BundoranRNLI’s volunteer lifeboat crew were requested to launch yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 22 December) to reports of a 19ft vessel that had sunk off Killybegs.
Also tasked to the scene were the Sligo-based Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 118 as well as the Killybegs Coast Guard RIB, while help was sought from other vessels in the area.
On arrival, the lifeboat crew found that two people who had been on the sunken vessel had already made their way to safety and were treated by an ambulance at the Killybegs slipway.
Bundoran Lifeboat Crew Help Rescue Man from Boat Aground Off Ballyshannon
21st December 2020
File image of Bundoran RNLI’s inshore lifeboat William Henry Liddington
Credit: RNLI/Nicholas Leach
Volunteers from BundoranRNLI were part of a multi-agency operation to rescue a man whose small boat ran aground on rocks in Ballyshannon yesterday afternoon (Sunday 20 December).
The man raised the alarm from his boat which had run aground off the island of Inis Saimer just before 1pm, and Malin Head Coast Guard requested the launch of Bundoran’s lifeboat as well as the Sligo-based Irish Coast Guard helicopter Rescue 118.
However, it was determined that sea conditions would render it unsafe for the inshore lifeboat to get across the bar at the end of the Erne Estuary.