Coxswain Robert McMullan, of Portrush, Co. Antrim, a professional fisherman, was appointed Second Coxswain in 1940 and Coxswain in 1964. His life-boat is the Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4), a 46 foot 9 inch Watson, which was built in 1949. In 1961, as second coxswain, he was awarded the bronze medal of the R.N.L.I. for his part in the service in 1960 to the m.v. Argo Delos of Piraeus. In 1965 he received the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for a search in appalling weather conditions for men lost overboard from a frigate. The picture was taken by George Morrison who made the Irish life-boat film '2,000 Miles of Peril'..