Yesterday, Sunday 10th August, saw Peel’s RNLI lifeboat station hold its annual thanksgiving service. With a full house of over 100 people various denominations of local clergy led a traditional service.
Items included in the service were John Kennaugh giving an excellent rendition of the T.E. Brown poem “Peel Lifeboat” recounting the recue of the schooner “St George” at the back of Peel Hill in a storm in 1889.
The Mariners Choir with Alan Wilcocks entertained and our own Lifeboat Medical Officer Dr. John Snelling gave an unaccompanied solo.
Lessons were read by station Chairman Stuart Blackley and Press Officer Malcolm Kelly.
The ladies of the lifeboat guild again supplied refreshments at the conclusion of the service.
Photo - A full boathouse at yesterday's service. Courtesy of Mal Kelly.
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