A new full-time coxswain has taken over the helm of Angle's RNLI Tamar class all-weather lifeboat Mark Mason.

Lewis Creese, who is aged 29, joined the RNLI in 2000 as a volunteer crew member at Tenby Lifeboat Station and prior to his move to Angle was deputy second mechanic and emergency coxswain there.

He has been covering both positions at Angle, on relief duty, for the past 12 months and was appointed full-time acting coxswain in April, following the departure of coxswain Andy Elliot.

Lewis's appointment as full-time coxswain has now been confirmed.

Tenby-born Lewis, a former pupil of Greenhill School, was a full-time fisherman, operating his own boat out of Tenby and Saundersfoot, until his RNLI appointment to Angle.

He has now taken up residence in Angle with his partner Rhiannon, who is on the civilian staff of Dyfed Powys Police headquarters communication centre answering 999 and 101 calls.

Lewis heads a team of two other full-time staff - mechanic Rich Bowles and newly-appointed assistant mechanic and full-time crew member Lenny Howells - together with a dedicated group of volunteers, from Angle and Milford, serving as all weather and inshore lifeboat crew members and shore crew.

Rich Bowles joined the RNLI in 1984 as a volunteer at Little and Broad Haven Lifeboat Station and was Helmsman in the D-class inshore lifeboat. He has undertaken duties as a RNLI relief fleet technician at lifeboat stations across Wales, England and Southern Ireland. He joined the crew at Angle as a volunteer in 2010, on moving to the village, and was appointed full-time mechanic last autumn.

Lenny Howells is 25 and moved to Angle at the age of 10 from Pendine. He joined the RNLI crew at Angle in 2005 and has served as a volunteer in the station's all weather and inshore lifeboats. He has two sisters serving with the RNLI. Lena was Angle's first female crew member and is now a lifeguard supervisor at RNLI headquarters at Poole, and Gemma is a current member of Angle's volunteer crew.

Former coxswain, Andy Elliot, has returned to his native Scotland to skipper commercial vessels operating in the North Sea. Prior to his appointment as coxswain at Angle in September 2010, Andy was full-time mechanic at RNLI Peterhead.