COXSWAIK THOMAS SINCLAIR, of Aberdeen, who died at the age of seventy, had been one of the outstanding coxswains in the Service. He retired in 1949 after having- been coxswain for nearly twenty-five years, during which more than 180 lives were rescued by the Aberdeen life-boats in which he served. He won the bronze medal for gallantry for a rescue from the trawler George Stroud on Christmas Day, 1935.

In January, 1937, during a period of tremendous gales off the Aberdeen coast he won the silver medal for the rescue of the crew of seven of the sleamer Fairy. In the same year in November he won a second-service clasp to his silver medal for the rescue of two survivors from the trawler Roslin. His ashes were scattered over Aberdeen Bay from the life-boat..