LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lillian
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER NEAR ROCKS Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 1.32 on the afternoon of the 17th October, 1962, the coastguard reported that a small cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down half a mile south of Boddam, and at 1.45 the...
The Aberdeen Fishing Boat Fortunatus
OCTOBER 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The coastguard had under observation the Aberdeen fishing boat Fortunatus, as her engine had failed. AT 5.35 in the evening she made distress signals, and at 5.55 the motor...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st January to the 31st March 1878
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartle- pool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...
Category: Services
Sunbeam
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.25 on the morning of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was on fire off North Head. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow left her...
Lapwing
Peter-head, Aberdeenshire - At i.i p.m. on 8th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Lapwing was firing red flares approximately a quarter of a mile off Peterhead breakwater. The...
Keys to the Door
Lottery winners Mr and Mrs Dilley of Redditch were presented with the keys to their new Volvo 440 Li, first prize in the 56th National Lottery, at the Boat and Caravan Show, Birmingham on 14 February.
The Dilleys (above... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 1st Sept., 1864. Capt. Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Keward...
Category: Committee
Book Reviews
0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.
Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...
Category: Articles
Adventures of An Emmett
A few days before Jon Jones went on his West Country tour of lifeboat stations with the Dl, Sue Denny, RNLI Press and Public Information Manager was in the same area looking at stations through the eyes of a tourist… rset off bright and...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Boat Parakeet
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 11.35 on the morning of the 28th of August, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that a sailing boat was lying to her anchor in a position which might become dangerous off the mouth of the River Aln. At...