Life-boat 70-001 at Clovelly, Devon - On the night of 8th February, 1967, the watchman on board the life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) was asked by the coxswain to keep a look-out for a ship's boat from the motor vessel Westminsterbrook which was ashore with five crew on board. At 11.10 p.m. the boat was seen to put off from the shore using only one sculling oar, and soon got into difficulty in a moderate north easterly wind and a choppy sea. It was low water. The IRB on board the lifeboat was launched and took the ship's boat in tow to the motor vessel Westminsterbrook.

The IRB returned to the life-boat at 12.15 a-m- on 9*h February, 1967..