Steve Elliot says Sheerness RNLI Lifeboat Station was called out four times on Christmas Day.
RNLI volunteer Steve Elliott was paged on Christmas Day just after proposing to partner Alla Renbenko
Steve Elliott, a volunteer at Sheerness RNLI lifeboat station, was first paged at 10:40 GMT following concerns for a person's welfare. He had just asked his partner Alla Renbenko to be his wife."Alla and my mum were amazingly patient. People don't realise that it's the families and partners of the lifeboat crews that are the real heroes in the RNLI," he said.
"It is the first Christmas since my dad passed away so we had my mum here along with her two dogs and Alla's cat, which we only managed to get out of Ukraine three weeks ago," he said.
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