While touring Northern Ireland on April 4, HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, called at Donaghadee lifeboat station and went out for a short trip in the 44ft Waveney lifeboat Arthur and Blanche Harris.

He was welcomed to the station by Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Hezlet and Wilson Ervin, both members of the Committee of Management, together with William Sherrard, Donaghadee station honorary secretary.

photograph by courtesy of Belfast News Letter.