Name The Doctors

Certificate no 1774

Status Archived

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Details

Function Service Vessel

Subfunction Lifeboat

Location Buckie

Vessel type Oakley 37 ft Lifeboat

Archive reason More information required

Current use Museum based

Available to hire No

Available for excursions No

Info required Yes

Construction

Builder Osbourne, William, Littlehampton

Built in 1965

Hull material

Rig None

Number of decks 1

Number of masts

Propulsion Motor

Number of engines 1

Primary engine type Unknown

Boiler type None

Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam

11.51 feet (3.51 m)

Length: Overall

37.00 feet (11.28 m)

Tonnage: Gross

0.00

Air Draft

To be confirmed

History

THE DOCTORS is an Oakley twin screw motor lifeboat, built by William Osbourne at Littlehampton in 1960. Her official number was 307849 and her lifeboat number was 983. She served at Anstruther from 1965 and was launched 62 times, saving 21 lives. She was put on display at Buckie Drifter Centre in April 1995.

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Key dates

1965
Oakley class twin screw motor lifeboat
1965-91
In service as Anstruther lifeboat
1991-93
In service as Anstruther relief lifeboat
1993
Sold out of service
1995
On display at the Buckie Drifter Maritime Heritage Centre, Banff, Scotland
1999
Vessel last seen in enclosure outside the Buckie Drifter Maritime Heritage Centre