Your site has many photos by the late Gareth Mills who I knew well as he often came out on Mumbles Lifeboat on our practice launches.

Just to point out that the caption to the colour photo which is described as "Seamark and Mumbles Lifeboat" is not correct.

The lifeboat shown is 37-27 Rother class OSMAN GABRIEL built 1972 and stationed at Port Erin, Isle of Man
from 1973 to 1992. In 1993 she left the RNLI and was sold to the Lifeboat Service of Estonia and stationed at Haapsalu and named ANITA.

My guess is that she was either on her way to or from Port Erin. At 8 knots that would
have taken some days possibly from or to the RNLI H.Q. at Poole, Dorset.

Carl Smith   (Mumbles Lifeboat crew 1967 - 87)

Many thanks to Carl Smith for sending this correction