News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services Rescues from around the country including award winning rescues The Annual Meetings 2000 14 The Chairman reports on another very successful year plus awards to crews and fundraisers Mozambique Mission 18 Eight RNLI volunteers flew out to Mozambique in March and braved hippos, crocodiles, snakes and relentless heat to help with the flood relief effort High Seas More aerial views lifeboat stations Girl Power 21 24 Part two of a spread taken from Storm Force News - all about the important roles that women play in the RNLI Books A look at some of the latest books on lifeboats and the sea Saturday Revisited Charles Macara's famous Lifeboat Saturday is recreated Your Letters Readers put pen to paper on lifeboating and sea related subjects 26 27 28 People and Places Around and about the RNLI The Fundraisers 30 32 How some of the money is raised - including how some branches and guilds are 'winning fundraising friends' Into the Archives 39 Barry Cox unearths some interesting history behind the 'RNLI Cross' List of Launches 41 Station-by-station lifeboat launches for November 1999 to February 2000 List of Awardees Awards to RNLI voluntary workers 45.