Contents Volume XLIX Number 495 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI RNLI News.

Lifeboat Services.

Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER 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).

Advertisement Manager: COLIN PEGLEY Jackson-Rudd & Associates, Oldebourne House, 46-47 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1JB (Telephone 01-405 3611/2 and 405 2860).

Printers: The Friary Press, Bridport Road, Dorchester, Dorset.

1886: The Wreck of the Mexico by Frank Kilroy.

HM Coastguard: the lifeboatman's link with the shore by Geoffrey Pallet Ceremonies -— Letters.

People and Places.

1986 London International Boat Show.......,,.,,.,,,.........,....,.,,,.

Books.

Shoreline The Lifeboat Service - past and present.

The Fund Raisers Lifeboat Services, August, September and October 1985.

Awards to coxswains, crews and shorehelpers , 291 293 299 302 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 319 321 Competition - Renault 5 Shoreline Drive Inside Back Cover.