After opening the Lifeboat Exhibition at Plymouth on July 19, HRH the Duke of Kent flew by helicopter to Sennen Cove, Conwall, to name Diana White, Semen's new 37' 6" Rather lifeboat. Nigel Warington Smyth, OBE, a vice-president of the RNLI, delivered the boat to the care of the Sennen Cove branch, and she was accepted by the honorary secretary, Captain W. B. Harvey. The naming ceremony over, and before taking tea and meeting the lifeboat people of Sennen, the Duke accepted an impromptu offer of a trip in the lifeboat; he went to Lands End, steering some of the course himself. About an hour after the Duke finally left by helicopter, the treacherous Cornish sea mist crept in, trapping in Sennen Cove the memory of a splendid royal occasion.

photograph by courtesy of H. G. Welby.