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Peter Race

Coxswain Teesmouth Tyne class lifeboat Bronze medal 26 August 1989 A NNW Force 7 was blowing on to rocks underasheer cliff when Coxswain Race took the Relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher in to heavy breaking seas to rescue the crew of a fishing vessel which had been driven ashore.

The small X boat was used to recover the casualties and the Acting Mechanic who manned it and the helmsman and a crew member of the Redcar Atlantic 21 also involved in the service received Certificates of Thanks on Vellum.

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