Four shouts in 24 hours for Angle RNLI

At 8.04pm on Friday night (22 August), the crew were paged to assist the police with an incident in the Milford Beach area. The lifeboat was soon on scene and conducting a search of the immediate area. With nothing found, the lifeboat extended their search whilst members of Dale Coastguard Rescue Team and police officers searched the shoreline. Around 40 minutes later the incident was ressolved inland and with no further assistance required, the crew were stood down and the lifeboat was back alongside and readied for further service by 9.30pm.

The following morning at 11.51pm, the lifeboat crew were tasked to assist a 9.7m yacht with two persons onboard with a fouled propeller, 1 mile west of Linney Head. The vessel was underway under engine power when they unknowingly motored over a section of fishing net. The lifeboat was on scene 17 minutes after launching and after bringing the net onboard the yacht, it was decided that the safest course of action was to establish a tow to bring the yacht to the nearest place of safety.

The crew set about towing the vessel to Milford Marina and just over an hour later both vessels arrived off the entrance to Milford Marina. The vessel was transferred into an alongside tow and the crew stood by awaiting the next lock into the marina.

Shortly after whilst waiting to lock in, the crew were tasked again to assist a male with a deep leg laceration following being struck by his vessel’s propeller off Watwick Beach. With the lock still closed, the yacht was placed on a nearby mooring to allow the lifeboat to depart. The vessel had made its way to the port authority jetty escorted by the Milford Haven Harbour Patrol.

The lifeboat was soon alongside the jetty and three casualty care trained crew members boarded the vessel and began assisting members of Dale Coastguard Rescue Team and Milford Haven Port Authority staff with medical care. Soon after, an ambulance arrived on scene. The crew assisted both the Coastguard and paramedics in extracting the casualty from the vessel. With the casualty handed over to paramedics, the crew were stood down to return to their original tasking of the yacht tow.

The lifeboat proceeded back to the yacht and once again rigged an alongside tow. The vessel was taken safely into the marina and placed on a pontoon. With no further assistance required the crew were stood down and the lifeboat was back alongside by 4pm.

At 7.19pm that evening, the crew were tasked to provide safety cover to persons attempting to salvage a 28ft vessel taking on water off Hobbs Point. The lifeboat launched and was soon on scene, where after assessing the situation the salvage pump was passed to assist with water ingress. With the vessel now pumped out, the casualty vessel was taken under tow by a local RIB and beached on Front Street to prevent it sinking further.

With no further assistance required the crew were stood down and returned to station where the lifeboat was readied for further service by 9pm.

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