Martin Woodward on Saving Lives at Sea

Moving on to later times, we did a lot of good rescues with the ‘Max Aitken III’ which came in 1987.

That’s the Time Class Lifeboat when we moved on to fast boats because you’ve got to bear in mind that the ‘Jack Shayler’ and the ‘Jesse Lumb’ were only sort of eight knots or nine knots maximum, so you went everywhere at slow speed.

With the new boat, the ‘Max Aitken III’ the Time Class we could go at 18 knots, so virtually doubled if not more the speed and the response time that we could get to the rescues and we did a lot of good jobs with that.