Castletownbere RNLI crew receive callout, five minutes before station's open day

'It is the first time we had a lifeboat open day without a lifeboat,' said Paul Stevens, RNLI lifeboat operations manager

Crew members and visitors at the Castletownbere RNLI's open day on Sunday. Picture: RNLI

RNLI volunteers from Castletownbere were called to assist 13 people aboard a rib [rigid inflatable boat] which suffered a mechanical breakdown on Sunday, five minutes before the beginning of the RNLI station's open day. 

A large number of adults and children gathered to visit the Castletownbere lifeboat station, view its lifeboat and meet its crew members.