LIFEBOAT volunteers raced to help a woman and two children stuck on a motorboat that had broken-down.

The incident happened just North of Puffin Island on Bank Holiday Sunday (May 30).

At 1.43pm the volunteer crew members of the Beaumaris Lifeboat received a page from UK Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre at Holyhead.

The Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat Annette Mary Liddington with her volunteer crew launched at 1.54pm and proceeded to the casualty vessel.

Once on scene and having ensured that all was well with the four occupants of the craft, the lifeboat arranged to transfer one adult female and two female children from the casualty vessel on to the lifeboat.

A spokesperson for Beaumaris Lifeboat said: "A member of the volunteer lifeboat crew joined the remaining male occupant on the boat the lifeboat then began to tow the casualty vessel into the Menai Strait as far as Gallows Point Beaumaris.

"The Mobile Coastguard Rescue tram from Penmon had also been tasked to this incident and they met the lifeboat at Gallows point and assisted the lifeboat crew in recovering the vessel on to her road trailer.

"Once this was competed the lifeboat was released from the service at 3.07pm the U.K. Coastguard to return to her station at Beaumaris so she could be serviced and refuelled and cleaned under the current Covid 19 instructions.

"Once this had been completed the crew left the station at 3.55pm."

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