Author: Beni Benstead, Volunteer Lifeboat Press Officer

Portaferry RNLI lifeboat volunteers were requested to launch by the Coastguard shortly after 8pm yesterday (Tuesday 14 February) as two men were stranded on Trasnagh Island, near White Rock Bay in Strangford Lough, Co. Down.

The men had got into difficulties and became trapped on the island when their own small boat filled with water.

Brian Bailie, Portaferry Lifeboat Operations Manager, said: ‘It was a choppy night and conditions weren’t the best in Strangford Lough. Our Portaferry RNLI volunteers are always pleased to effect a rescue, in this case bringing the gentlemen back to the safety of White Rock Bay.’