ANGLE RNLI Lifeboat crew’s busy streak has been continuing, with five more shouts reported.

Having been paged to an ongoing incident, the crew remained at West Angle Bay for two hours on Sunday, May 24, assisting St Govan’s and Tenby Coastguard Rescue teams, the Welsh Ambulance Service paramedics and Air Ambulance and Dyfed Powys Police. Their thoughts are with the family and friends of the casualty at this difficult time.

The following afternoon, the crew were urged to launch immediately to reports of two people caught in a rip tide at Freshwater West Beach, but as the crew were preparing the boat, the launch was cancelled when it was confirmed that both persons had been assisted ashore by a surfer.

Just two hours later, at 6.32pm the crew were paged to assist a four-metre speedboat with two on board, broken down and drifting off the Angle Buoy. With no other suitable vessels in the area able to assist, the lifeboat was tasked.

Once on scene, with the vessel adrift near the west channel into the Milford Haven Waterway making it a hazard to navigation, the decision was made to take vessel under tow.

After a tow of just over an hour, both boats arrived off the Cleddau Reach slipway just after 8pm. The casualty vessel was placed alongside the lifeboat while the lifeboat’s inflatable Y boat was launched to take the casualty vessel in an alongside tow to be taken in to the slipway.

With the vessel now back on its trailer safe and well the crew were stood down and the lifeboat was back alongside her berth and readied for further service by 9pm.

At 6.05pm on the Wednesday, the crew were tasked following a mayday call from the single occupant of a 10 meter yacht in a position 25 miles south west of St Ann’s Head. With engine failure, lack of wind to sail and fatigue worsened by sea sickness the skipper made the decision to issue a mayday call for assistance.

The lifeboat launched shortly after and began proceeding to the casualties last known position. At just after 8pm, the crew located the vessel.

With the skipper now severely seasick and unable to leave the cockpit, two crew members from the lifeboat were transferred onboard to assist. With the vessel adrift and without a means of power, and taking into consideration the effects this was having on the skipper the safest course of action was to take the vessel under tow.

With a tow passed and set, the crew began the five-hour journey back to Milford Haven. Arriving off the entrance to the Milford Docks channel at around 1.15am, the tow was dropped and the yacht taken into an alongside tow and taken into the marina.

With the casualty and his vessel now safely alongside and being assisted by marina staff, the crew were stood down and returned to station. The lifeboat was back alongside the berth and made ready for service once again by 2am.