LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Captain Barton Holmes a Retired Us Master
Captain Barton Holmes, a retired US master mariner living in Stolen Island, New York, is a good friend to Aberdeen lifeboat station. In each of the past eight or nine years he has made a model ship and donated it to the branch. His latest... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Readers Union (Maritime Book Society)
experiences of the most famous lone sailors of the Atlantic To: Maritime Book Society, PO Box 6, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 2DW I would like to join the Maritime Book Society and claim Challenge for only £1.00 post free (Allow up to 21...
Category: Advertisement
H.M. Destroyer Javelin
Redcar, Yorskhire.—22nd October, 1939. Information had been re- ceived through the coastguard from the senior naval officer at Newcastle that there had been a collision off Maske, one of the vessels being H.M.
Destroyer...
Aircraft—Life-Boat Signalling Exercise
THE Broughty Ferry, Angus, life-boat Mono, took part in an exercise on the 8th of December, 1955, in conjunction with helicopters, search aircraft and air-sea rescue launches. The main purpose was to investigate and exer- cise communications...
Category: Articles
Fishing Vessels
SEVEN AT SEA At 10.15 a-m- on 24th March, 1964, the honorary secretary was told that seven motor fishing vessels were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched at ii o'clock in a...
Dolphin
TRAWLER BROKE DOWN Dungeness, Kent. At 9.55 p.m. on 2ist March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small trawler had broken down three miles north-east of Dungeness. There was a light southwesterly breeze with a moderate...
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APPEAL FOR BLOOD Troon, Ayrshire. At 9.50 p.m. on igth September, 1964, the surgeon at Kilmarnock Infirmary told the honorary secretary that four pints of blood were urgently needed at Arran War Memorial Hospital, Lamlash. There was no more...
A Fishing Boat
DISTRESS SIGNALS Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 8.15 p.m. on 5th December, 1964, a local barkeeper telephoned the honorary secretary to report that distress signals had been seen off Duncannon and that a fishing boat was overdue. The sea...
A Fishing Boat
FLARE SEEN Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. At 2.30 p.m. on 2yth December, 1964, the honorary secretary saw a flare being burnt from a small fishing boat at the approach to Dungarvan harbour. There was a strong north-easterly wind and a rough...
A Catamaran
Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.55 on the evening of the 2nd June, 1961,during an exercise launch of the life-boat James and Barbara Ait ken it was noticed that a catamaran had lost its sails and was in difficulties, with a crew of two, three-...