Contents Lifeboat Services 77 Volume XL VIII The Naming of the 52ft Relief Lifeboat Dwctoso/Ken/ 85 Number 480 Grim but Glorious: the days of oar and sail, by Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI 86 Chairman • Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 88 THE DUKE OE ATHOI.L Letters 95 Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI An Epilogue to the loss of Solomon Browne, from Dr D. W. L. Leslie, Chairman, Penlee Station Branch 96 Lifeboat People 97 Tulip Lifeboat: at Spalding Flower Parade, by Theo Stibbons, Chairman, Spalding and District Branch 98 Editor: nn JOANDAV.KS Sh0relme " Some Ways of Raising Money 100 Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 Lifeboat Services, December, 1981, January and February, 1982 105 1HZ (Telephone Poole 671133).

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