A fishing boat, which was taking in water off Skomer Island, was towed to safety by Angle RNLI’s all-weather lifeboat on Sunday. Milford Haven Coastguard had received a distress alert at 11.26 am and put out a mayday relay and appeal for help from any vessel in the area.
Angle’s Tamar class lifeboat, Mark Mason, commanded by Coxswain Andy Elliott, was paged at 11.31am and was on her way to the casualty, off the island’s South Haven, within 14 minutes. When the lifeboat reached the scene, the boat was under tow by another vessel. The lifeboat transferred crew member Nigel Berry and a salvage pump to the fishing boat and took over the tow, bringing the casualty safely to Milford Haven.
The lifeboat returned to her station and was rehoused at 2.25pm. With Coxswain Elliott and Nigel Berry on the call-out were Second Coxswain Danny Richards, Mervyn Lunn as Mechanic, Derek Richards, Clark James and Nathan Molunter.
