THE portrait on the cover is of ex-Coxswain Stephen Clayson, of Margate, Kent. He served as second coxswain for over seven years, from 1898 to 1905, and then as coxswain for twenty years, retiring in 1925 at the age of seventy-two. During his twenty-seven years as coxswain and second coxswainthe Margate life-boats rescued 367 lives. Coxswain Clayson, as acting-cox- swain, won the silver medal in January, 1905, for the rescue of the crew of the ketch Malvoisin, of London, in a whole gale with a very heavy sea.

On his retirement he was awarded a pension and a certificate of service.