Life-boat 70.001 at The Mumbles - At 2.5 a.m. on i6th September, 1966, the coastguard informed Staff Coxswain J. M.

Hunter that the coastal tanker Westerndale H., of Hull, was aground on the Wash Sands. The 70-feet life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) left her moorings at 2.10. It was low water. She reached the casualty at 4.10 and stood by until the tanker refloated. The tanker Shell Glassmaker, which had arrived on the scene before the life-boat, also stood by. At 4.25 the IRB was sent from the life-boat to the tanker and returned to report that the casualty had got off under her own power but her steering had jammed and she wished the Shell Glassmaker to take her in tow. This was done and the life-boat escorted both vessels towards Barry Docks until 6.30 when she returned to her station. While returning, the life-boat sighted the East Nash buoy adrift one mile south of St.

Donnards. After contacting the Trinity House vessel Alert by R/T she took the buoy in tow until she met the Alert off Nash pier. The buoy was then hoisted aboard the Alert and the life-boat proceeded to her station, arriving at 11.15..