Coxswain George Lisle of Tyne- mouth died on the 6th of December, 1959, at the age of 80. He first joined the Tynemouth crew in 1921. He was second coxswain from 1925 to 1938 and then coxswain for four years. He was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for a service carried out on the 8th of December, 1940, when the crew of 22 of the Norwegian vessel Oslo Fjord were rescued by the Tynemouth life- boat..