Contents Volume XLIX Number 491 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Telephone Poole (0202) 671133).

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RNLI News.

Lifeboat Services Letters Sheringham's Retiring Coxswain (left) by Edward Wake-Walker.

Cornish Correspondent by John Corin Shoreline.

Books.

People and places.

Boat Shows.

RNLIKE CRAZY (left) by Sally Wilson The Lifeboat Service— past and present The Fund Raisers .

Lifeboat Services, August, September and October 1984.

Awards to coxswains, crews and shorehelpers , 146 149 156 160 163 163 164 166 167 168 169 170 176 178.