Angle Lifeboat Station
Our Station
In November 1867 Inspecting Commander Harvey R.N., of the Milford Division of coastguard, wrote to the RNLI headquarters in London asking for a lifeboat station within the Milford Haven. On Thursday 5th December 1867 it was decided to form a lifeboat station at Angle.
A stone boat house with a wooden slip was built at Angle Point to house the first lifeboat, "Katherine",at a cost of £170-14-0d, and was initially known as the Milford Lifeboat Station.
In 1887 with the arrival of a new boat the "Henry Martin Harvey" a longer slipway was built, 200 feet in length, at a cost of £610. This boat house then housed "Charlotte" 1906-1910 & "Henry Dundas" 1919-1927.
The steam driven"James Steven No.3" & then No.11 were placed on the mooring.
In October 1892 at a meeting of the RNLI's committee of management, the official name of the station was changed from Milford to Angle, Milford Haven.
During 1926 with the announcement that Angle's first motor boat the "Elizabeth Elson" was to be built, work began on the construction of a new boat house and deep-water slipway to the west of the existing boat house. This was completed at a cost of £20,000, and on January 10th 1929 the first motor lifeboat "Elizabeth Elson" arrived on station. This boat house went on to house the "Richard Vernon & Mary Garforth of Leeds" 1957-1987 and then the Tyne Class "Lady Rank".
In 1990 major structural problems were found in the lifeboat slipway and also in the substructure of the boat house. It was decided to build a completely new, larger boat house alongside the existing one.
A new access road to the boat house was also built when work began in May 1991. It proved an awkward site to work on, most of the plant and materials used by the builders, Christiani & Nielsen of Cardiff, had to be brought in by sea.
But by July 1992 the new boat house and slipway was completed and the Lady Rank was re housed during a ceremony on September 19th 1992. The boat house was officially opened by the wife of the managing director of Christiani & Nielsen, Mrs Christine Anstead.
And now in 2009 work to adapt the boat house and slipway has been completed and we took delivery of our new Tamar Class Lifeboat "Mark Mason"in March.