Contents Lifeboat Services 113 XLVII Lifeboat Services, June, July and August, 1980 118 474 Going alongside . . . and survivor recovery 119 January, 1881: three weeks of storms and blizzards just a hundred years ago, by Ray Kipling, public relations officer 124 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Two relief . . . one station . . . the naming of three lifeboats in September, Director and Secretary: I98° 126 REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM, CB MNI Launching and Recovery—Part I: slipway stations, by Edward Wake- Walker, assistant public relations officer (London) 128 Shoreline 130 A Day at the Races: Ascot, September 26, 1980 131 £jjtor. Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part II: on the stocks 133 JOAN DAVIES Some Ways of Raising Money 134 Headquarters: Royal National Life-boat Institution, Letters 138 West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ (Telephone Poole 71133). Books 139 Telex: 41328 London Office: Index to Advertisers 144 Royal National Life-boat Institution, 202 Lambeth Road, London SE1 7JW (Telephone 01-928 4236)..