Registration number 1774
Status Registered
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Details

Function Service Vessel
Subfunction Lifeboat
Location Donaghadee
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 Osborne, William, Littlehampton
Built in 1965
Rig None
Number of decks 1
Propulsion Motor
Number of engines 1
Boiler type None
Boilermaker None

Dimensions

Breadth: Beam
11.51 feet (3.51m)
Length: Overall
37.00 feet (11.28m)

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.

HRH The Duchess of Gloucester named the station’s new Oakley class lifeboat on 28 July.  The lifeboat was a gift of Dr Nora Allan and named THE DOCTORS in memory of her father and three brothers.  Dr Allan’s father and two of her brothers were doctors.  The boathouse was adapted for the new Oakley class lifeboat, carriage and tractor.

She was put on display at Buckie Drifter Centre in April 1995 until she was purchased by her current owner.  She is completely original and should be out sailing again in 2022.

We are lacking information on this particular vessel. If you have any information on this vessel past or present, please contact us.

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

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