Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 255 Lifeboat Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 257 _ _ i VT T T Revision of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: V OlUrFie -/V-Ll V an introduction to an introduction, by Leslie J. Vipond, Inspector, Mobile ._ Training Unit .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 264 Number 459 Head Protection for Lifeboat Crews, by Stuart Welford, BTBCH MIMCCHE MRINA, Research and Development Officer, RNLI .. .. .. .. .. 265 Outboard: Watertight 266 Chairman: MAJOR-GENERAL R. H. FARRANT, CB fey Director and Secretary: Some Ways of Raising Money 271 CAPTAIN NIGEL DIXON, RN International Boat Show, by Ray Kipling, Deputy Public Relations Officer, RNLI 274 Here and There 275 Shoreline 276 Managing Editor: PATRICK HOWARTH Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part III—In frame 277 Editor: Book Revjews 279 JOAN DAVIES Letters 281 Headquarters: Awards to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers .. .. .. .. 282 Royal National Life-boat Institution, m?ShRo«"po*7iSrBH'5 "»-"»* * . , __. Offshore Lifeboat Services, September, October and November 1976 .. 285 London Office: Royal National Life-boat Institution, 21 T 1 T. , , _ . _ . „ . . ,., , „„ , Ebury Street, London SW1W OLD Inshore Lifeboat Services, September, October and November 1976 .. 286 (Telephone Ol'-730 0031).

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