John Doyle Gets Some Greystones Gratitude
The Greystones man who was given the Scott Medal by the Royal
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)
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. A freak wave washed the three men out
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