(Above) A long service for Donaghadee lifeboat: On July 17, 1956, MV Douglas, of Bergen, went ashore at the Maidens on an ebbing tide. Sir Samuel Kelly, slipping her moorings at 0830, found her hard and fast on the rocks, holed and taking water; her Norwegian captain asked the lifeboat to stand by.

Sir Samuel Kelly remained alongside until July 19, when, her services no longer being needed, she landed four of Douglas's crew at Larne and returned to station at 2100. She had stood by for nearly 53 hours.

photograph by courtesy of the Daily Express..