LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prosperity
ON THE SANDS Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 11.16 a.m. on yth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported a 6o-foot motor fishing vessel ashore on sands north of Rattray Head. At 11.33 ^ life-boat...
Golden Rod
MAY 22 ND. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6 A.M. the coastguard reported that the steam drifter the Golden Rod, of Peterhead, was ashore near Slains Castle, five miles S.W. of Buchan Ness. As the weather was fine, with a...
September
Launches 59. Lives rescued 46.
SEPTEMBER 3RD.- WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 7.50 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Portland, through the coastguard, that three trawlers or drifters were ashore between St....
Category: Services
Teazer, of Whtiby
On the 18th October, at 5 | P.M., during a heavy gale at E.S.E., the i barque Teazer, of Whitby, whilst endea- j vouring to enter that port, in tow of a •, steamer, parted her tow-rope and went ! ashore on Whitby Sands. The Life-boat...
Hannah and Joseph
LLANDDWYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 25th June the Life-boat John Gray Bell was launched to the assistance of the schooner Hannah and Joseph, of Liverpool, ashore on Carnarvon bar, which vessel, after some hours' hard work on the part of the...
Success
BODIMIB, NOBTHTJMBEBLAND.— At 1.30 A.M. on the 26th October the Robin Hood of Nottingham Life-boat put off and rescued the crew, consisting of four men, from the brig Success,of Sunderland, bound from that port for Arbroath with a cargo of...
Breeze
FRASERBURGH.—The schooner Breeze, of and from Sunderland, bound for Dingwall with a cargo of coal, was observed to be in danger in Fraserburgh bay while a N.W. gale was blowing accompanied by a heavy sea on the 3rd February. The Life-boat...
Fishing Boats (3)
GOURDON.—Early on the morning of the 16th February fifty fishing - boats proceeded to sea, but in the forenoon the wind increased considerably, the sea became heavy and about twenty of the boats, which had not then returned to port, were in...
Fishing Cobles (5)
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — heavy sea rapidly sprung up on the 27th April, seriously erd*ngering six cobles which had gone out to fish, and were returning to port. The Life-boat Robert and Susan was launched at about noon and escorted each...
New Year Honours
AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the New Year's Honours List were: Knight Bachelor: Mr. M. Arnet Robinson, a member of the Committee of Management and Deputy Chairman of the Port of...
Category: Awards