Serviceman remembered by naming new lifeboat in honour
Posted on September 22nd 2008
Aberdeen’s new lifeboat has been unveiled naming it after an air serviceman who went missing nearly 65 years ago.
The remembered air serviceman’s sister, who died in February, paid for the new lifeboat, costing £40,000 when she left the money in her will.
Eileen Simpson, herself a RNLI volunteer in Peterhead, passed away leaving money to purchase the new lifeboat in honour of her brother James Simpson.
James, a Fleet Air Sub Lieutenant, disappeared while stationed on the Azores Islands in October 1943. A body was never found so in April 1944 he was declared presumed dead.
The new D-class inshore lifeboat names James Bissett Simpson, was granted a truly honourable welcome at a ceremony at Aberdeen harbour on Saturday.
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