THE portrait on the cover is of Mrs.

Louisa Taylor, one of the launchers at Newbiggin, Northumberland. The Newbiggin women were awarded the Institution's thanks on vellum for helping to haul the life-boat up a cliff, over a moor and through sand-dunes, against a gale on the 4th of May, 1940, and then launching her to the help of the Belgian trawler Eminent, from which she rescued eleven lives.

The photograph is by Illustrated and is reproduced by its kind permission..