LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.10 on the evening of the 13th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed off Buchan Ness. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow left her moorings at...
Isernia
STOKEHOLD ON FIRE Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 4.59 p.m. on I9th November, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had received a mayday call from the British trawler hernia stating that her stokehold was on fire. The life...
Ben Strome
At about 8.30 P.M. on the 5th January the coastguard telephoned that a vessel seaward of Buchan Ness lighthouse was showing distress signals. The life-boat coxswain was ill, and the motor life-boat Duke of Connaught was launched at 8.40...
An Oil Rig
Peterhead: Very strong winds and heavy seas were experienced in the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, area during January this year. On Sunday January 22 the 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat James and Mariska Joicey launched at 0248 to stand by an oil...
Vedette
TOW FOR YACHT TO HARBOUR Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 8.50 on the morning of the 19th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen from a small yacht off Whinnyfold, Cruden Bay. There was a light...
Xmas Morn
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. On the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1959, the skipper of the herring drifter Xmas Morn, on passage from Great Yarmouth to Fraserburgh, decided because of the weather conditions at Fraserburgh to enter...
H.M. Trawler Flotta and H.M. Trawler Filey Bay
NOVEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At about 9.15 in the evening the naval officer in charge asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to be ready to launch to the help of H.M. Trawler Flotta.
Struan
On ' the 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Struan was wrecked, and the crew of nine were rescued by the Peterhead life-boat.—Rewards, £52 17s. 6d. (A full account of this service appeared in the March issue of The Life-boat.).<...
Ruby
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. —• At 8.10 in the evening on the 19th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that men had been seen waving from a small boat about five miles north by east of Peter- head, and the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of...
Honey Bee
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 7.40 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Honey Bee of Peterhead was leaking badly and in danger of sinking off Buchan Ness. At...