When HRH The Prince of Wales visited Connah's Quay, Deeside, on July II, he met Garry Jones, station honorary secretary (c.) and Flint lifeboatmen who were there to launch their D class inflatable lifeboat down the new slipway built as part of renovation works carried out voluntarily by Connah's Quay Watermen's Association. The slipway, about three miles from Flint, is proving very useful to the lifeboat station.

photograph by courtesy of Graham Catherall.