A busy few days for Angle lifeboat

It started on Wednesday 23 April at 9.47pm, when the lifeboat was requested to assist Dyfed Powys Police with a incident. The launch was cancelled as the crew were mustering after no further assistance was required. Two days later on Friday 25 April at 7.52pm, the lifeboat was requested to assist Dyfed Powys Police and Dale and Broad Haven Coastguard Rescue Teams with a search for a missing person in the Milford Haven area. The lifeboat and Y boat conducted a shoreline search from Wards Pier to Dale before being stood down when the person was located safe and well ashore.

The following week on Tuesday 29 April at 3.54pm, the lifeboat diverted from exercise to assist an 11m yacht with two persons onboard that had broken down in Sandy Haven Bay. Once arrived on scene an assessment was undertaken by the lifeboat Coxswain alongside HM Coastguard – and it was decided that the best course of action to prevent the yacht becoming a risk to navigation with potential risk to life, that the lifeboat would take the yacht under tow to Neyland Marina.

On Sunday 1 May at 1.42pm, the lifeboat was tasked to immediate launch alongside Coastguard Rescue Helicopter R187 and the Dale Coastguard Rescue Team to a serious incident off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Then on the following day at 2.09am the lifeboat was tasked again to support a multiagency incident near Westfield Pill, however the launch was cancelled as the crew were mustering.

At 12.43am on Sunday 4 May, the lifeboat was tasked to assist police boat M66 with an 89-year-old person suffering a possible medical episode on a motorboat below the jetty at South Hook. Two RNLI lifeboat crew members were transferred onboard and the vessel was escorted to the safety of Milford Marina. The following day on Monday 5 May at 12.47pm, the lifeboat crew diverted from exercise to assist a 7m motor-vessel with two persons onboard broken down near Mid Channel Pole. To prevent the vessel becoming a risk to navigation, the lifeboat took the vessel in tow and left them safely alongside the pontoon at Neyland.

And finally on Friday 9 May at 2.14am, the volunteer lifeboat crew were paged to assist Dyfed Powys Police and Dale Coastguard Rescue Team with an incident on the pontoon at Neyland. The crew were stood down shortly after launching when the incident was resolved safely by police.

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