In the Spring issue of The Lifeboat you showed the Simmons family of Sheringham crewing the inshore lifeboat. In 1974 rny sons David and Martin crewed the Port Isaac inshore lifeboat with me and I believe that this was the first ILB family crew.

You will see from the photograph that we wore Everett suits and were always wet up to our chests when launching -the family wash line was always full!.