Lifeboat Efficiency Certificate

[Keith Tindell]

looks like the same pratt that did my finger in, is still at sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUqQM1Cgs40

[j.sabourn]

Weren’t they called Schatt boat falls or something similar Keith. JS

[Michael Black]

#22 John, schatt davits were an Alnwick based firm specialising in lifeboat equipment. They went bust in 98. When I worked for a testing company we used to supply them with some equipment.
Regards Michael

[michael hooper]

when i was a sos in the 1950s i had to sit for my edh ticket and life boat ticket spent 2 weeks at training and studying in southampton docks had a training facility there would take a life boat out and sail it in the river test i managed to pass both tests.i still have my discharge book with the endorsements

[Brenda Shackleton]

Hello
i have my Dad's. 24th April 1924. He was 19 years old. Certificate # 22221 Can't read the stamp; it's blurry.

Brenda

[Tony Taylor]

#22 John, schatt davits were an Alnwick based firm specialising in lifeboat equipment. They went bust in 98. When I worked for a testing company we used to supply them with some equipment.
Regards Michael

Michael, correct; one of their engineers was called Alan Davies, lived in Cullercoats. They fabricated in Alnwick and had gearboxes made in Ryton at a small gear cutting company.
He used to look after a few fishing boats for his mates and usually got paid in crabs and lobsters. I used to do a swap of crabs for bags of spuds I got from farms near me.
Poor soul died early, left wife and two sons.

[J Gowers]

The last one I did was at MPT (Maritime and Professional Training) in Fort Lauderdale 2012 I talked the company (offshore drilling) into sending me there took the wife stayed on a few days after the course and went down to the Florida Keys. It was STCW Proficiency in survival craft, had some classroom training and then mucked about in rubber boats in FT Lauderdale the lifeboat part of the course was done on an old Liberty ship the SS American Victory at Tampa. I believe anyone in the MN or with tickets and on rigs have to do this or a refresher course every five years now. All MN courses come under the STCW convention now which is supposed to standardise all of these types of courses throughout the World, I think.
The photo below shows the training being carried out on the Liberty Ship. I later found out the MCA in the UK did not approve this course but luckilly I retired (three years later) before I had to do the new refresher courses in lifeboats, first aid, firefighting etc. I was told by some of the guys on the ship that it is still seaworthy the engines work and they take it out for a trip around the bay once a year, it is basically a museum now. A great place to do a training course.

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[j.sabourn]

#25 More than likely in that year a. BOT stamp Brenda. JS

[j.sabourn]

#27 They look like Schatt Davits . The whole Davits slidedown the incline and boat itself is kept alongside the ship by bowsing in tackles for boarding , these are slackened off and let go before lowering the boat . Make sure both plugs are in their proper holes before touching water !! JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Most of the container and other cargo or oil ships have just one lifeboat.
Situated at the stern of the ship and all must be strapped in before it is let go.
Bit like being on a fair ground slide only faster one would imagine.