RNLB Keith Anderson (ON 1106)
RNLB Keith Anderson (ON 1106)
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History | |
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Owner | Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) |
Builder | VT Halmatic |
Official Number: | ON 1106 |
Donor: | Gift of Mrs Esme Anderson Grosvenor Square, London |
Station | Newhaven (1985 – 1999) Relief Fleet (1999 – 2000) Hartlepool |
Cost | £394,928 |
Yard number | WO 2790 |
Laid down | 1984 |
Launched | 1985 |
Christened | 27 May 1986 by Mrs Esme Anderson |
Completed | 1985 |
Acquired | 1985 |
In service | 1985 - 2003 |
Fate | Sold out of fleet in 2006 to China Rescue & Salvage Bureau[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Arun-class |
Type | Motor lifeboat |
Displacement | 32 long tons (33 t) |
Length | 54 ft (16 m) overall |
Beam | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
Draught | 5 ft (1.5 m) |
Propulsion | 2 × Caterpillar 460 hp (343 kW) diesel engines |
Speed | 18.5 knots (21.3 mph; 34.3 km/h) |
Range | 250 nmi (460 km) |
Crew | 6 |
RNLB Keith Anderson
History
The Keith Anderson was ordered to replace the
The lifeboat, which cost £394,928, was funded by a gift from Esma Anderson of Grosvenor Square in London in memory of her husband Keith Anderson, after whom the boat was named. The Keith Anderson arrived in Newhaven on 9 August 1985. The official naming service took place in Newhaven on 27 May 1986 when Anderson officially handed over and named the lifeboat. By the time of this ceremony the lifeboat had already been launched to service on 33 occasions and had been accredited with saving the lives of four people.[citation needed]
Relief fleet service
In October 1999 the Keith Anderson was transferred from Newhaven and was placed in the RNLI’s relief fleet at the RNLI depot at Poole. This was a short-lived arrangement as in October 2000, she was reassigned to be the Hartlepool lifeboat. She remained on that station for three years until 2003.
Disposal
Between 2003 and 2006 the Keith Anderson was placed in storage at the Poole Depot until a deal was negotiated by the RNLI to send three Arun-class lifeboat to China[6] to join the China Ministry of Transport Rescue and Salvage organisation. She, along with her sisters were loaded aboard a container ship at Felixstowe and shipped to China. Once there the China Rescue & Salvage Bureau placed her on station at the city of Dalian, a seaport in the south of Liaoning province. She was renamed Huaying 395.[6]
References
- ^ "RNLI Website - China". Reference to the cooperation between RNLI and China. RNLI. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ISBN 9781907426216
- ^ "Newhaven Lifeboat Station – RNLI website". Home page of the Newhaven station. RNLI © 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ "Hartlepool Lifeboat Station – RNLI website". Home page of the Hartlepool station. RNLI © 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ "Halmatic". Reference to the construction of the Arun-class Lifeboats by the company. Sail Boat Data © 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
- ^ a b "Huaying 394/Huaying 395". Photo and details of Huaying 395 based at Dalian in China. © 2014 China Rescue and Salvage of Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China. Retrieved 10 April 2014.