Angle RNLI’s D-class inshore lifeboat was launched on Monday afternoon (9 May), at the request of HM Coastguard, after a report that a 22ft yacht was drifting in the Milford Haven Waterway after breaking her mooring.
The lifeboat, Richard John Talbot Hillier, was tasked to locate the vessel and ensure no-one was onboard. When they reached the scene, just under the Cleddau Bridge at Pembroke Ferry, the lifeboat’s volunteer crew found that the yacht was already aground and dry, with no-one onboard.
Following liaison with St Govan’s coastguard rescue team and Milford Haven coastguard, the lifeboat was released to return to her station. It was the third call-out in six days for Angle lifeboats.
On Tuesday morning, 3 May, the inshore lifeboat was paged to assist a 15ft motor boat, which was suffering intermittent engine problems in the Milford Haven Waterway.
The lifeboat shadowed the boat, which had three people and a dog onboard, to East Llanion, Pembroke Dock, where they were met by coastguards.
Later that day, at 7.15pm, while on exercise off Dale, Angle’s Tamar class all-weather lifeboat, Mark Mason, received a call from Milford Haven coastguard to assist a 30ft yacht, becalmed with engine problems about 12 miles off St Anne’s Head.
The yacht, with one person onboard, was on passage from Padstow in Cornwall to her home port of Belfast. The lifeboat reached the scene at 8pm and took the yacht in tow to the safety of Milford Haven.
The lifeboat then returned to her station and was rehoused at 10.50pm.
