The cover picture by Richard and Sally Greenhill is of Coxswain William Sheader, aged 49, of Scarborough, Yorkshire, who joined the local life-boat in 1945. He was bowman from December, 1951, to December, 1954, when he became second coxswain, a position he held until he was made coxswain in November, 1957. This year Coxswain Sheader was awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver medal for the part he played in the rescue of one of the crew of the converted ship's life-boat Sheena in a strong north easterly wind and a very rough sea on 23rd November, 1969. Coxswain Sheader's father, Holden, was motor mechanic to Scarborough's first motor life-boat the Herbert Joy I. And Holden's father was in the pulling life-boats at Scarborough. Coxswain Sheader, incidentally, was aboard the E.C.J.R. life-boat when she went over in 1954 with the loss of three of her crew..