Skegness Life-boys
A excellent photograph of the Skegness Team of Life-boys aboard the good ship “Providence,” aground on Skegness beach, was secured on Sunday week, after a parade to the Baptist Church, at which service the team was the recipient of a Life- Buoy, presented by the senior organisation, the 1st Skegness Company, The Boys’ Brigade.
The presentation was made by Sergt. Walter Draper, who expressed the hope that the life-buoy would prove to be such a symbol to the Life-Boys as would inspire them to endeavour to fulfil their code, namely, that each boy would be loyal to his home, Sunday School and team, that he would be a total abstainer, that he would be truthful in word and deed, and that he would follow the Great Leader, Jesus Christ.
The gift was received on behalf of the team by Miss Reid, the Leader-in-Charge, who, after an appropriate little speech of acceptance, in which she embodied an expression of appreciation of the thought of their “Big Brothers,” called upon the Chaplain to dedicate the Buoy.
Having done so, the Rev. Paul Shipley handed the buoy to the carriers, Eric Keyworth and A. Blanchard, with a charge to keep the aims of the team, of which the buoy was to remind them constantly, and to be faithful to the honourable position of carriers to which they had been called.
Those depicted in the photograph (read- ing from left to right ) are as under:—
Top row:— L. Bell, R. Kerry, S. Brooks and B. Davies.
Middle Row: H. Atkinson, D. North, — Giles, A. Blanchard (Life-Buoy Carrier), E. Keyworth (Life-buoy Carrier), L. Ulyatt and J. Raynor.
