THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry Albert (Buller) Griggs, of Hythe, Kent. He was second cox- swain for two and a half years, and for over nineteen years has been coxswain; so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for nearly twenty years. During that time the station has rescued 29 lives. Coxswain Griggs won the Institution's silver medal for gallantry in the great gales of the winter of 1929 to 1930, for the rescue of the crew of three of the barge Marie May, of Rochester, in the early morning of 12th November, 1929, in a 70-mile an hour gale, with a very heavy sea running. He won the Institution's thanks on vellum for another fine service in January of this year, of which a full account will be found on page 216. The photograph of Coxswain Griggs is by Mr. Harold B.

Burdekin, of London and Reigate, and is reproduced by his kind permission..