Tim portrait on the -cover is of Coxswain Leonard Peddlesden, of Newhaven, Sussex, who retired in January after serving for fifteen years as an officer of the life-boat. He had been coxswain for nearly six years. He won the silver medal for gallantry in the war, when in November, 1943, he carried on in a gale with his life-boat almost cut in two, one of. his men washed overboard and ' drowned, injured himself, and with three of his other six men injured..