Skegness Magazine

The annual Lifeboat Day will be held on Saturday, 1st August 2009, kicking off at 9am with a fete at the Lifeboat Station.
Both the inshore and off-shore lifeboats will be on display along with numerous stalls and games.
The crew will be onhand to answer any questions together with local coastguards, RNLI lifeguards and sea-safety advisors.
The [...]

Breaking news – Missing Child Skegness Beach 23rd July 2009

The Skegness inshore lifeboat was launched yesterday, 14th June,  at 12:43,  following a report of an inflatable drifting out to sea from Ingoldmells Point.
The children involved had made their own way back to shore before the crew arrived.
Safety advice was given to the children involved before [...]

The Skegness Inshore Lifeboat was launched at 17.40hrs on Friday, 5th June after a request was made by the Local Coastguard, following a report of multiple persons in the surf assisting a stranded dolphin.
The lifeboat was requested to monitor the situation after the Local Coastguard arrived at the scene of the incident.
The dolphin was assisted [...]

Lives and Property Saved by the Skegness Lifeboat etc
1833 August 31st
Ten persons, the crew of the brig “Hermoine” of London, saved from the wreck by the Skegness lifeboat.
1834 October
Three persons of the crew of the sloop “Resolution” of Wells, saved by the Skegness lifeboat.
1838 January 24th
Two out of three persons on board the sloop “Boyne” [...]

Six Hours from Skegness to Mablethorpe
A meeting of the members of this association, which was in union with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, was held at the Eagle Hotel, Mablethorpe on July 27th, 1882.
The Skegness lifeboat left on the previous afternoon for Mablethorpe, and her departure was witnessed by a large number of persons.
The weather [...]

Pop duet, The Cheeky Girls appeared at the Richmond Holiday Park in Skegness way back in 2006. We shot some footage of them presenting a check to the Skegness Lifeboat crew and posing for a photo shoot for the local press.
Picture below by Paul Gooch.
Password for video is ’skegness’.

Skegness Target 21st June 2006.

Skegness hosts England’s biggest ever beach safety event
‘Get safe 4 Summer’
THE BIGGEST water safety event ever to be held in England took place on the June 25, 2008, in Skegness, one of the country’s most popular seaside holiday resorts and 1000 young people from across the East Midlands attended.
Each year millions of people flock to [...]

Perrin Family

The Perrins are an established family in the Skegness area and are renown for their connections with the Skegness lifeboat.
A work colleague of mine declared that she was connected to the Perrin family but wasn’t sure exactly how. She told me that her grandfather was called Wilfred Stanley Perrin and he was born in [...]

Joel Grunnill was presented with an MBE by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire today at the Skegness Lifeboat Station.
Mr Grunnill, 84, has been connected with the Skegness Lifeboat since he was three years old when he started fund-raising for the charity, and he is the last member of a long line of Grunnills who have been [...]

The New Lifeboat – How the Name was Chosen
IT might have been named “Alfred, Lord Tennyson ” or “Sir John Franklin” or “Matthew Flinders”, alternatively the “Wash Sentinel” or “Jolly Fisherman” —but Skegness’s new lifeboat bears proudly on its bows the name “Charles Fred Grantham”, perpetuating the memory of the distinguished townsman who was honorary [...]