Busy afternoon for Amble Amble's Waveney class Margaret Graham had a busy afternoon on 14 August, attending three calls in three hours.

She was first launched at 1207 to the fishing boat Nina with ten anglers aboard.

No sooner had she taken the anglers aboard and towed the vessel to Amble than she heard another call, from the motor cruiser Optimist, which was suffering from engine trouble.

The station's inshore lifeboat launched and succeeded in putting a tow aboard the second casualty, but once the survivors had been landed the larger Waveney put to sea again to take over.

Margaret Graham had just picked up the tow when she heard a call from a local fisherman and lifeboat crew member K.

Henderson that a nearby fishing coble An Mordros, which also had ten anglers aboard, was taking water rapidly. The Waveney relinquished the tow to the inshore lifeboat once again and made best speed to the latest casualty.

The anglers had already been taken off by another local boat when the Waveney arrived and so they were duly taken aboardthe lifeboat leaving only the skipper aboard An Mordros. However she was sinking rapidly so Mr Henderson took his own coble alongside and rescued him shortly before she sank.

With the excitement of the past few hours over Margaret Graham was able to take her second batch of rescued anglers ashore and was back at her station by 1500..