LAUNCH OF LIFEBOAT, "SIR ARTHUR ROSE"

Mrs Federick Laing ceremonially launches the RNLI lifeboat "Sir Arthur Rose", at Tobermory Bay on 11th August 1939.

1939 | col | silent

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