Inside this issue:

• Jim Ridgeon – Obituary – Keith Morton
• Letters to the editors – Montague Steps, Lundy – Roger Chapple
• ALK Archive Weekend, Bidston – Alan Hodson
• Life on a lightvessel – John Beamish
• The Longstone business – David Appleby
• Remembering the Fastnet disaster 40 years on – Gerald Butler and Ian Hogarth
• Rain later, good – The shipping forecast, lighthouses and lightships Part 2 – Richard Griffith
• A tour of Isle of Man lighthouses in pictures
• Graham Fearn – From Whitby to the Rock – Patrick Tubby
• Chance Brothers update – Mike Rose
• Winterton Lighthouse revisited – just in time! – Joy Tubby
• A Beauty: From my father’s notebook – Peter Smith
• Conservation in action – Becky Russell
• Behind the scenes: Wolf Rock Lighthouse – C J L Clarke
• The Trevose Head foghorn
• The future of North Carr Lightship – Peter Gellatly
• Front cover: Beachy Head and Belle Tout Lighthouses – Richard Griffith
• Back cover: Wolf Rock Lighthouse before automation – Christopher Nicholson