Youghal Lifeboat

Press Room 2005

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Youghal Lifeboat Crew Members Successfully Complete First Aid Course.

On Tuesday night 2^nd August, Youghal lifeboat crewmembers completed their examinations on an intensive First Aid course provided by the RNLI, which had been in progress on Monday and Tuesday nights for the previous 4 weeks. The course instructor Mr Stuart Roberts a Full time employee with the RNLI, is one of four instructors who travels from station to station instructing crews in First Aid procedures. Even with four instructors rolling out courses to lifeboat crews week after week, it still takes three years for them to get around to each of the 233 RNLI stations in the UK and Ireland. The last First Aid course held in Youghal was in 2002, and the local crew, need to be continually up to speed with First Aid practices, as each time they are called out, none of them know what they are going out to and they need to be prepared for every circumstance. The number of lifeboat calls in the Youghal area has increased by about 25 to 30 per cent in the past ten years, as more and more people take to the sea for pleasure. There are callouts every year, where local lifeboat crews have to administor First Aid.

The First Aid course was attended by ten local crew members, which is the maximum number allowed per course, and all ten successfully completed the examinations. WELL DONE TO EVERYONE.

NEW LIFEBOAT TRACTOR AND CARRIAGE DELIVERED TO YOUGHAL.

On Wednesday August 3^rd the Youghal lifeboat Station received a replacement tractor and carrige for launching the stations Atlantic 75 class lifeboat Patricia Jennings. The new unit had previously served at Clifden Lifeboat Station in Co Galway between 1998 and 2004 and it replaces the carriage at Youghal, which has been in use since 1996 and the tractor, which has been at Youghal since 1999. Lifeboat Tractors and Carriages are moved around every few years so that they can be serviced and overhauled, as they are constantly being driven into the sea when launching and recovering lifeboats and no matter how well they are looked after, they are still subjected to corrosion.