Contents Volume XLIX Number 493 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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RNLINews. 219 Lifeboat Services 222 Colleagues From the Sky by Georgette Purches .........

Towing Linesa discussion...

Ceremonies People and Places.

Shoreline Books (including Tim Batstone's windsurfing advice) The Lifeboat Service—past and present.

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