f s -T 4- /a-rrt'C Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth .. .. .. .. .. 3 Summary of Accounts for 1976 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 TT i -*r-r -r T Lifeboat Services .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 6 Volume XLV -v T i Annual Awards 1976 12 Number 460 Hartlepool, by Joan Davies .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 13 HMA: Robert Haworth, MRCS LRCP DA Eng, of Barmouth 16 Chairman: MAJOR-GENERAL R. H. FARRANT, CB On Exercise, by Andrew Gould, Assistant Public Relations Officer, RNLI.. 18 Director and Secretary: Waterballasting, for inshore lifeboats .. .. .. .. .. .. 20 CAPTAIN NIGEL DIXON, RN Night Passage, by Wallace Lister Barber .. .. .. .. .. 22 Around the Coast 23 Shoreline 24 Managing Editor: Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part IV—Skeleton Hull 25 PATRICK HOWARTH Letters 26 Editor: JOAN DAVIES Some Ways of Raising Money 27 Book Reviews 30 Headquarters: Royal National Life-boat Institution, Here and There .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 33 West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Telephone Poole 71133). Offshore Lifeboat Services, December 1976, January and February 1977 .. 35 London Office: Inshore Lifeboat Services, December 1976, January and February 1977 .. 35 Royal National Life-boat Institution, 21 Ebury Street, London SW1W OLD T , AJ - ,* (Telephone 01-730 0031). Index to Advertisers 36.