It was a busy start to the Easter weekend for the volunteers who crew the Angle’s RNLI all-weather Tamar class lifeboat, Mark Mason, with two call-outs in 24 hours.
The first came on Good Friday, when the lifeboat – commanded by RNLI Staff Coxswain Lee Firman – was launched shortly after 2pm to evacuate an injured crewman from a 23m French fishing vessel Alf, off the south Pembrokeshire coast. The lifeboat met the fishing vessel about two miles off St Anne’s Head and escorted her into the Milford Haven Waterway. There, RNLI volunteer crewman Mark Roch boarded the fishing vessel to assess the 18-year-old crewman, who had a suspected collapsed lung. The casualty was then transferred to the lifeboat and taken to the Milford Haven Port Authority jetty, where an ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital.
The second call-out came on Easter Saturday, when the all-weather lifeboat was launched shortly before midday to assist a 10m Swedish motor cruiser, with three persons on board. The cruiser, Anna V, which was in Broad Sound, between Skomer and Skokholm islands, had lost the use of one of her twin engines. The lifeboat escorted the cruiser towards the Milford Haven Waterway. But, when the vessel’s other engine failed just off St Anne’s Head, she was taken in tow, by the lifeboat, to Milford Docks.
