LAUNCH OF LIFEBOAT, "SIR ARTHUR ROSE"
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Title: LAUNCH OF LIFEBOAT, "SIR ARTHUR ROSE"
Reference number: 1397
Date: 1939
Director: [filmed by Frederick Laing]
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: col
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 4.07 mins
Description: Mrs Frederick Laing ceremonially launches the RNLI lifeboat "Sir Arthur Rose", at Tobermory Bay, 11th. August 1939.
Shotlist: No credits. Various shots of launches and yachts in Tobermory Bay (0.51); Shots on deck as lifeboat ties up at pier. Bunting decorating all boats and cheering crowd await the boat (1.25); Several people including the Duke of Montrose address the crowds on the quayside. Mrs Frederick Laing ceremonially launches the new Royal Navy Lifeboat "Sir Arthur Rose". General views of the boat and of Tobermory Bay as the platform party is taken for a trip round the bay. Ties up at quay (3.59); Shot of table with vase of flowers and small model of the lifeboat beside it (4.07).