Contents Volume XLVIII Number 482 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOI.L Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI Notes of the Quarter Long Service Awards.

Lifeboat Services.

146 148 149 Atlantic Watch: Ireland's western lifeboat stations, Arranmore, Galway Bay and Valentia, by Ray Kipling, Public Relations Officer, RNLI 155 Naming Ceremonies: Two station lifeboats, at Mallaig and Aldeburgh; a relief lifeboat at Poole; and the prototype Tyne class lifeboat in the City of London 158 Commercial Shipping: Taking off the crew . 162 Lifeboat People. 167 Some Ways of Raising Money.

Editor: JOAN DAVIES Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Telephone Poole (0202) 671133).

Telex: 41328.

London Offices: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 202 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7JW (Telephone 01-928 4236).

Shoreline .

Lifeboat Services, June, July and August, 1982 Letters Index to Advertisers.

169 174 176 179 180.