Logbook entry for Lady Peace and their Rescue!
![A yellowed, handwritten logbook document stating Lady Peace flight details and their rescue.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/aviation-harbour-grace/wp-content/uploads/sites/170/2023/01/Lady-Peace-Rickenbacher-rescue.jpg)
Source: Conception Bay Museum Archives
Page 71 of the Harbour Grace Airstrip Logbook which details specifics from the Lady Peace adventure in 1936.
Document reads:
1936
Name of Plane – Lady Peace
Pilot – Dick Merrill (License Number: 646), Harry Richman
From what place – New York, Floyd Bennett Field
Time of Arrival – 7 pm, Sept 18, 1936
Time to Take off – 8 am, Sept 19
Owner – Harry Richman
Signature of Aviators – Harry Richman, Dick Merrill
Aug 27, 1947 – Dick Merrill
Remarks – One week getting ship out of bog in Musgrave Harbor, landing at Harbor Grace, Friday 18, Sept, 1936. Left Harbor Grace for New York after Capt. Rickinbacker [sic] arrived in Musgrave with three mechanics and fuel and stood by with crew and Eastern Air Lines Douglas till take off for New York.
Releif [sic] Douglas and Crew