LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Primula
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Primula of Peterhead was ashore in Burnhaven Bay. At 3.15 the life-boat Julia Park Barry...
The Naval Seaplane W2670
JULY 13TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea half a mile east of Buchanness, and the motor life-boat .Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5.5 P.M...
Coxswain John Mclean
COXSWAIN JOHN McLEAN, of Peter- head, died on the 9th of January, 1956, at the age of 62. He was the holder of the gold medal, the highest award for gallantry which the Insti- tution can confer. He won this award for services in three days...
Category: Obituaries
Astros
REFLOATING A TRAWLER Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.20 in the morning of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard reported a trawler ashore south of Rattray Head, with a bad list to port. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow,...
Ocean Star
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.28 on the evening of the 19th of August, 1958, the coxswain intercepted a mes- sage from the trawler Ocean Star of Lerwick that she was in broken water near the rocks not far from Peterhead harbour and needed...
Castlebrae and Kitty Mackay
JANUARY 18TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An easterly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and at 2.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that some small fishing boats were still at sea. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
Union, of Fraserburgh
AUGUST 30TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE At 11.35 at night the coastguard reported flares about one mile off North Head. A light south-south-east wind was blowing. There was a heavy swell. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
Fishing Boats
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the morning of the 1st August several of the fishing-boats of this port were placed in danger by a strong breeze from the N.E., and the Life- boat People's Journal, No. 1, put to sea to render assistance. She was...
The H.M.T. Resmilo
JUNE 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 2 in the morning information came from the senior naval officer that H.M.T. Resmilo had been bombed in Peterhead Bay, and with a doctor and the senior naval officer on board the...
Bruces
At 8 P.M. on the 21st November the steam drifter Bruces, of Peterhead, bound from Yarmouth to Peterhead, stranded owing to hazy weather on the Beacon Rocks between the old harbour and the South Outlet. In response to her signals of distress...