Capt A Sowman, secretary, receives on behalf of the Clovelly branch of the RNLI, a cheque for £500 from Group Capt I M Pedder, commanding RAF Chivenor. 

Funds came from the sale of Air Day postal covers sent with a Lundy stamp and postmarked with the British Forces Post Office post mark at Chivenor. The 11,000 issues commemorated the Chivenor rescue unit’s 5,000 emergency calls, many of them a combined operation. Clovelly lifeboat took the covers to Lundy and they were flown back to Chivenor by Flt Lieut Ralph Probert, commander of the unit. Copies were sold at 30p or 50p with Flt Lieut Probert’s signature or that of Mr Jim Hunter, Clovelly lifeboat coxswain. Mr Hunter who was present at the ceremony together with crew members Messrs Robert Tanner and Michael Burrow, and the treasurer, Mr Frank Gregory, received a plaque.

 More information is in the full Gazette article dated 2 March 1973