Life-Boat O.N. 70-001. At 12.10 a.m.

on yth February, 1966, the crew of the first seventy foot steel life-boat, anchored in Clovelly roads, intercepted a message on the radio from the German motor vessel Ameland stating that she had a twenty-five degree list to starboard and was jettisoning her deck cargo of timber in an attempt to correct the list. The lifeboat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No.

55) weighed anchor and proceeded on service for the first time at 12.25. The life-boat went alongside the vessel at 2.35 two miles north of the Coperas Rock buoy. Shortly afterwards the Ameland reported that her list had been almost corrected and no help was needed. The life-boat returned to her anchorage in Clovelly roads arriving at 5.50 a.m..