Recovery ofClogher Head's 35' 6" Liverpool lifeboat, Thomas Corbett. She has been beached, turned and then recarriaged. The tractor has been attached and all is ready for towing up the beach to the boathouse.

Every station has its own system; at Clogher Head balancing bars are left in place and skids attached to the bowstrop, so that all equipment is retrieved in one operation. The photograph was taken by Peter Hadfield.

Correction: In the caption for the Autumn 1977 cover picture, the Duke of Edinburgh was wrongly called the Duke of Kent. We apologise for the error..