Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 10.30 a.m. on 30th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that the cabin cruiser Callihaun was adrift about two miles south of the Breaksea lightvessel.

The life-boat Blanche and Arthur Harris slipped her moorings at 11 o'clock in a moderate westerly wind with a corresponding sea. It was two hours after low water. At 11.33 the life-boat came up with the Callihaun. The m.v. Apollo was standing by. Then the life-boat took the cabin cruiser, which had four people on board, in tow to Barry, returning to her station at 12.45..