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Portrait on the Cover

Date: October 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 339

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THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain GEORGE PERRIN, of Skegness.

He joined the life-boat crew in 1913.

For three years during the war of 1914 to 1918, he served as mate on drifters engaged in mine sweeping, and returned to the life-boat in 1919. In 1932 he was appointed coxswain. Since 193o his son Wilfred Perrin has been second- coxswain..