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The medal was awarded for John’s saving three lives after a boat began sinking off our coast, young Doyle rescuing one by carrying them on his back and the other two holding onto an oar as he swam back to shore.
The plaque is presented to Betty Lowe
motions ran high down at the harbour one sunny Sunday afternoon in August 2013, as a plaque was unveiled for the late, clearly very great John Doyle.
The Greystones man who was given the Scott Medal by the Royal Humane Society was now having his hometown tribute.
The medal was awarded for John’s saving three lives after a boat began sinking off our coast, young Doyle rescuing one by carrying them on his back and the other two holding onto an oar as he swam back to shore. 
After being awarded the Royal Humane Society medal – a forerunner of the RNLI – Doyle (coxswain of the lifeboat the Sarah Tancred) saved the lives of two other people over the ensuring years.
Tragedy was to strike our local hero though, along with two members of his family.
It was on October 14th, 1892 that a terrible storm hit Greystones harbour, and three of the local lifeboat crew – John, his brother, William, and the latter’s son, Herbert Doyle – went out to rescue The Mersey, a schooner that was moored at the jetty and now in serious trouble.
John Doyle’s Medal of Honour
