Contents Volume L Number 501 RNLI News.

Lifeboat Services.

Training in focus, with the 1987 medallists.

187 189 194 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Editor: NORMAN HICKS 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.

Heavy weather training in the USA, by Lt. Alan Tate, Staff Officer Operations (Training) Past and Present.

Ceremonies.

Letters Books People and Places .

Shoreline .

199 201 204 206 207 208 210 The Fund Raisers 21.1 Lifeboat Services, March, April and May, 1987 . 217.