At a ceremony at Silloth on Sunday June 7, County Councillor J. Ormond Holliday, vice-president of Silloth branch, opened the station's new tractor house and then Silloth's new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, principally funded by a bequest of Mrs M. E. A.

Gregory-Armstrong, was officially handed over to Donald K.

Redford, a member of the Committee of Management, who received her on behalf of the Institution. Before the Atlantic was launched to give a demonstration afloat she was named Amelia Gregory Armstrong by Mrs Cyril North.

photograph by courtesy of Cumbrian Newspapers.