THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope, in the Orkneys. He has been coxswain since 1900, and during the thirty-three years of his coxswainship the Longhope station has rescued fifty-four lives from shipwreck. He has twice been awarded the silver medal of the Institution for gallantry. The first occasion was in January, 1930, when the Longhope motor life-boat rescued eight lives from the Aberdeen steam trawler Braeon- moor, and the second in January, 1932, when she rescued eight lives from the Hull trawler Dorbie. Both services took place in the middle of the night, with the trawlers lying very danger- ously among rocks and heavy surf..