Many years ago there was the-launching of the Mumbles/hearse Before the boathouse and slipway were built, the RNLI owned two horses to haul the Mumbles boat on a carriage over the wide mud flats into the water. One day the local undertaker borrowed the horses to pull a hearse up the hill to the village cemetery. As the hearse reached the funeral site, the maroons went up.

The horses - suddenly thinking about pulling lifeboats, not hearses - made for the beach with the newly deceased in tow. At the waterfront, the Ufeboatmen watched in amazement as the bizarre procession - horses and hearse pursued by frantic mourners in their Sunday best - raced across the mud flats, heading for the sea..