Contents Volume XLIX Number 494 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.

254 256 Rugged in the Extreme.

Caithness Lifeboat Stations: Thurso and Wick by Joan Davies 263 Shoreline.

Fast from a Carriage. The fast carriage lifeboat takes shape....

Ceremonies 269 270 272 Letters People and Places Books.

The Lifeboat Service - past and present, The Fund Raisers 273 274 277 278 279 Printers: The Friary Press, Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset.

Lifeboat Services. June and July 1985 285.