Lifeboat volunteers had a busy set of days including callouts that involved missing people and a rescue mission.

St Bees RNLI said it started on Thursday evening, when the crew was first tasked by Belfast Coastguard at 8:10pm to help find a local missing person.

The next afternoon, at 1:14pm, the crew was paged again to reports of a young person in the water near Whitehaven Harbour.

Workington RNLI also launched both of their lifeboats and was soon on the scene to help.

Soon after, the crew had recovered and washed down the lifeboat, when they were again paged at 1:53pm by Belfast Coastguard to help Whitehaven Coastguard find two missing people last seen below the cliffs near Whitehaven.

This launch, a St Bees RNLI spokesperson said, was particularly special as it was the first shout for one of their stations’ recently passed-out helms.

Their lifeboat carried out a thorough search below the cliffs until they were stood down by Belfast Coastguard at 2:55pm.

They had a very bust open day on Saturday, and on Sunday, their volunteers were paged at 12:15pm to help a woman with a suspected broken ankle at Fleswick Bay.

The St Bees RNLI spokesperson said: "Our inshore lifeboat launched into a very choppy Irish Sea with four crew, two of whom were RNLI casualty care trained, to assist the local coastguard rescue teams.

"When the volunteers arrived and met their colleagues from the coastguard they agreed the best thing was a helicopter evacuation.

"As this was being arranged two of the RNLI crew made their way ashore so they could use their training to help with pain relief and make the casualty comfortable.

"After the helicopter ‘Rescue 199’ from Prestwick had safely winched the woman on board all units were stood down.

"As more rocks were now exposed by the falling tide, it was too risky for the two RNLI volunteers to rejoin their two colleagues back on the inshore lifeboat.

"It was felt the best course of action was for them to get a lift back with the coastguard to Whitehaven Harbour and board the lifeboat from there."

Dick Beddows, St Bees RNLI operations manager, said: "This was a very tricky operation that required a lot of care to avoid the casualty suffering any more pain.

"I would like to thank everyone involved who did a great job in very difficult conditions.

"This is yet another good example of the local search and rescue teams working well together for a positive outcome."