THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain George Lamey, of Clovelly. He has been an officer of the life-boat for eighteen years, and coxswain for the past twelve years. In 1944 he was awarded the Institution's thanks on vellum for rescuing the crew of eight men from a phcenix—a 6,000-ton concrete caisson—-which was driven into- Clovelly Bay by a gale when being towed from Liverpool to Normandy to form part of the port built at Arromanches for the landing of the allied troops in Normandy..