THE portrait on the cover is of Richard Walsh, the coxswain of the Rosslare Harbour life-boat. Richard Walsh has been coxswain since December 1946.

From August 1941 to December 1946 he was second coxswain, and before that, bowman.

The photograph is by the Sunday Press (Dublin) by whose kind per- mission it is reproduced.

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The next number of THE LIFE-BOAT will be published in JUNE, 1954..