[1] At the meeting of the RNLI committee of management on Thursday 12 June 1890, following a report by the district inspector, it was decided to establish a lifeboat station at Johnshaven, Kincardineshire.

The cost of the lifeboat and equipment was from the bequest of the late Mr. Alexander Davidson of Hampstead, a London trader but native of Scotland.

[3] At 11:45 on 21 December 1920, the Johnshaven lifeboat James Marsh (ON 639) was launched to the aid of the Danish schooner Fredensborg of Korsør, on passage from Copenhagen to Grangemouth with a cargo of scrap iron, and a crew of nine.

In recognition of the efforts of 1920, the Danish King awarded a silver cup to each member of the Johnshaven lifeboat crew, inscribed "Awarded by the Royal Danish Government, in recognition of bravery and self-sacrifice on the occasion of the rescue of the crew of the schooner Fredensborg, of Korsør, wrecked in St. Cyrus Bay, on the 21st December, 1920".

[7] At a meeting of the RNLI committee of management on Thursday 19 January 1928, it was decided to close Johnshaven Lifeboat Station.