Lovely shots of an impressive vessel. This puts me in mind of a trip i was lucky enough to enjoy on the Angle lifeboat, named The Lady Rank, back in the 1980s. It was the day of a regatta in Pembroke Dock, during the school summer holidays, and my family were friends with a number of the lifeboat crew, so we, and all the kids from the village were allowed to ride in the boat, down the slipway, across to pembroke dock, and back again. Amazing experience i shall never forget. Unlike what can be seen in this clip, the procedure for that boat was for it to effectively ram the slipway, nose first. The boat would come to rest on a carriage which ran on the slipway. The carriage and the boat would then be hauled up the ramp with a steel cable. Before the boat could be put away, it was turned 180 degrees by the crew pushing it around by hand, using a turntable built into the carriage on which it sat. The slipway was much narrower than the boat was long, so the crew needed to squeeze up as the boat got to halfway around, or else theyd fall off and onto the rocks below. I remember thinking what a dangerous operation this was, and would have been much more so at night, and in a howling gale. The angle lifeboat, slipway and boathouse are now replaced with a newer, safer design, not unlike the one shown here.
Lovely shots of an impressive vessel.
This puts me in mind of a trip i was lucky enough to enjoy on the Angle lifeboat, named The Lady Rank, back in the 1980s.
It was the day of a regatta in Pembroke Dock, during the school summer holidays, and my family were friends with a number of the lifeboat crew, so we, and all the kids from the village were allowed to ride in the boat, down the slipway, across to pembroke dock, and back again. Amazing experience i shall never forget.
Unlike what can be seen in this clip, the procedure for that boat was for it to effectively ram the slipway, nose first. The boat would come to rest on a carriage which ran on the slipway. The carriage and the boat would then be hauled up the ramp with a steel cable.
Before the boat could be put away, it was turned 180 degrees by the crew pushing it around by hand, using a turntable built into the carriage on which it sat.
The slipway was much narrower than the boat was long, so the crew needed to squeeze up as the boat got to halfway around, or else theyd fall off and onto the rocks below.
I remember thinking what a dangerous operation this was, and would have been much more so at night, and in a howling gale.
The angle lifeboat, slipway and boathouse are now replaced with a newer, safer design, not unlike the one shown here.
In the 60,s dad and l went on the old lifeboat l was 5 or 6 yrs old it was a open day loved every minute
Awesome, I have never seen the recovery before, God bless the RNLI