THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain James Gall of Broughty Ferry. He was appointed coxswain in December 1959, after the disaster in which the whole of the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat were lost. He did in fact first join the crew of the Broughty Ferry life-boat in 1932 and in that year was appointed bowman. In 1935 he became second coxswain, a position he held, with an interruption for war service, until 1948, when he left the district. Coxswain Gall was one of more than forty men who volunteered to serve in the Broughty Ferry life-boat immediately after the disaster..