I was there! At the time of the wreck, I was on the Dartmouth Training Squadron minesweeper, HMS Brierley, in the Channel Islands. We received a signal to proceed with all dispatch to Falmouth, where we loaded spraying booms and a large number of 50-gall drums of detergent. The next 10 days were spent in very rough seas spraying Fairy Liquid onto rafts of brown, foul-smelling oil and throwing up over the stern.
We were replaced by the other half of the course two days before the Buc attacks! Damn!
Mog