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Portrait on the Cover

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, Cork.

He served as second coxswain from 1911 until 1922, and since 1922 he has been coxswain, so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for twenty-four years. During that time thirty-two lives have been saved..