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Guernsey's Big Day

The new 52-foot life-boat Arun sailing into St. Peter Port Harbour, Guernsey, on 15th October, 1972, for the dedication ceremony and (below) Mr. William T. Bishop, C.B.E., a member of the R.N.L.I. Committee of Management, addressing the gathering. Inset shows the Arun at the naming ceremony at Littlehampton on 23rd September when Mr. K. J. B. Webb, chairman of Birds Eye Foods Ltd., representing one of the principal donors, handed over the life-boat to the R.N.L.I..

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