DAVID AND ELIZABETH RNLB 17-21
Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:28 am
RNLB DAVID AND ELIZABETH ACLAND
Severn Class
First introduced in to service in 1996, although the prototype was built in 1992, and in total 46 examples were built by Green Marine and then being fitted out by Berthon Boat Company, VT Halmatic, Souter Marine or FBM Marine. Normally carry a 3-metre, 2-man Y-class inflatable dinghy. The final boat of class left Green Marine' Waterloo Road Factory in Lymington on 15/12/03 for fitting out at the nearby Berthon Boat facility. In 2009 it was announced that studies had been undertaken and that the hull-life would be extended to 50-years and the fleet would be re-engined. The first to be fitted with MTU 150hp model 10V2000 M93 engines, the first boat to undergo this was 17-46 in early 2009.
The Severn Class has a sheerline that sweeps down for ease of survivor recovery. She is inherently self-righting and should it be knocked over in extreme weather, it will automatically right itself within a few seconds. Her propellers and rudders lie in partial tunnels set into the hull that, along with the two bilge keels, provide excellent protection from damage in shallow water.
In addition to her twin engines, the Severn is fitted with a hydraulic-powered bow thruster for improved manoeuvrability.
The comprehensive electronics include VHF and MF radios with DSC functionality, VHF direction finder, DGPS with electronic chart system and radar.
The Severn carries a small Y boat, which is an inflatable daughter boat complete with a 15hp outboard engine. This small craft can be launched with a crane and is used in moderate conditions to access areas where the lifeboat cannot reach.
Comprehensive first aid equipment includes stretchers, oxygen and Entonox.
Other equipment includes a portable salvage pump carried in a watertight container.
Currently at Newhaven our station lifeboat is the RNLB DAVID AND ELIZABETH ACLAND, named after Mr David Acland DL who was a member of the RNLI's Committee of Management for 34 years and its Chairman from 1996 to 2000. She was built at FBM Marine Ltd of Cowes and placed on station in October 1999. She is the twenty-first of the Severn class boats built and the cost of £1.8 million was funded from a number of generous bequests from Phyllis Backshall, Elizabeth Mary Baldwin, William Charles Holman, Margaret Evelyn Tatham Lamb, Mabel Grace Stapleton, Noel Dudley Sutton, Dorothy Agnes Wood, Thirza Ellen Ivy Young and others.
RNLBDAVID AND ELIZABETH ACLAND
RNLI Official Number: 1243
Named after
Call Sign: MBSA3
Specifications:
Built in 1999
Dimensions 17m x 5.5m x 1.38m
Speed 25-knots
Displacement 40-tonnes
Range 250-nm
Construction Fibre Reinforced Composite
Endurance:
Engines 2 x Caterpillar 3412 (1250-hp) Crew 6
Survivor capacity: Self-righting – 28 - Non self-righting – 124
Placed on station at Newhaven, East Sussex, England, in October 1999.
Recent launches (station log):
8 January 2014
Solent Coastguard (CG) paged our Lifeboat Operations Manager (LOM) at 03:46 to request that we launch to assist a 12m local fishing vessel which had become caught on its own fishing gear. The vessel was approximately 7NM SSE of Newhaven and had 2 persons on board (PoB). The crew were paged at 03:53 and the lifeboat left the side at 04:02 arriving on scene at 04:31. Having checked that there was no gear in the water that could foul our propellers our towline was passed and we started a tow to Newhaven at 04:40 arriving at Newhaven breakwater at 05:43. Inside the harbour the vessel was brought up on the port side of the lifeboat so it could be placed on its own mooring at 06:03. The lifeboat was back on our berth at 06:05.
24 November 2013
Solent CG had received a VHF radio distress call from a 14ft day boat which was broken down and at anchor approximately 1NM south of Splash Point with 2 PoB. Our LOM was paged at 14:50 to request that we launch to assist. The crew were paged at 14:55 and the lifeboat left the side at 14:58 arriving on scene at 15:10. The casualties were requested to recover their anchor then we came alongside and took off the 2 occupants and 2 of our crew went aboard to secure the towline. We started to tow the vessel to Newhaven at 15:22 and when inside the harbour it was brought up alongside the lifeboat and then handed into the care of Newhaven CG at the marina slipway at 16:00. The lifeboat was back on our berth at 16:10.
21 November 2013
Our LOM was paged at 14:11 to request that we launch to recover a collie dog which had fallen from the cliff just west of Belle Toute lighthouse. Birling Gap CG were on scene with the owners and confirmed they had the dog visual and that is was alive and moving. The crew were paged at 14:15 and the lifeboat left the side at 14:22 arriving on scene at 14:43. The Y boat was launched at 14:47 with 2 PoB and one crew member went ashore to assess the condition of the dog, which could be seen on the rocky shore, while the Y boat returned to the ALB to pick up a further crew member. Miraculously despite being wet and shivering the dog was found to have no obvious injuries and was able to stand and walk. The dog was wrapped in blankets and gently placed aboard the Y boat at 15:16. The Y boat set off with 2 crew to meet with Birling Gap CG and the owners at Birling Gap. The third crew member started to walk towards Birling Gap as the tide was ebbing. The dog was landed into the care of Birling Gap CG and the owners at 15:22 to be taken to a vet to be checked for injuries. The third crew man joined the Y boat having walked back to the beach and the Y boat returned to the ALB and was recovered at 15:33. The lifeboat left the scene at 15:35 and was back alongside at 16:05.
This is the 5th time we have been called out to reports of dogs over the cliffs in the last 4 months and the only one of those where, unbelievably despite having fallen approximately 300 feet, the dog had survived.
27 October 2013
In response to 999 calls reporting a teenaged boy had been swept into the sea from the west beach at Newhaven, Solent CG paged the crew at 16:19 for an immediate launch. The lifeboat left the side at 16:25 and arrived on scene at the position he had last been sighted, very close to the beach where the western breakwater joins it, at 16:32. We approached to within a few metres of the last reported position in heavy breaking surf with a substantial backwash from the waves hitting the breakwater. 2 crew members were in dry suits with lines attached so they could enter the water quickly if the casualty was spotted. In extreme conditions with 3 to 4 metre seas and in shallow water the Coxswain managed to hold the lifeboat's position for nearly 2 hours while we thoroughly searched the area with darkness having fallen about halfway through this period.
Coastguard teams from Newhaven, Birling Gap and Shoreham carried out extensive searches along the beaches at Newhaven and in Seaford Bay. Sussex Police, South East Coast Ambulance and East Sussex Fire & Rescue all provided help in the searches ashore. Coastguard Rescue Helo 104 carried out a comprehensive search of the area. Having thoroughly searched the area off the beach and along the west of the breakwater we then searched the eastern side of the west breakwater followed by both sides of the east pier. We then searched from the end of the west breakwater across Seaford bay and back to the east pier at Newhaven before returning to the west beach and searching the area off the beach to the end of the breakwater twice.
Finally Solent CG requested that we carry out a search from approximately 3NM west of Newhaven back towards the breakwater. It was during this last search at 21:45 with further increasing winds and torrential driving rain bringing visibility right down that Solent CG stood us down and we made a slow search through the area back to harbour arriving back on our berth at 22:25. Regrettably despite our best efforts and those of all the other search teams ashore and in the air the casualty was not found.
I visited this RNLI station on 28 July 2010 to photograph the lifeboat. The only decent vantage point was a private balcony overlooking the lifeboat. I asked the gentleman running the gift shop if there was any chance of getting onto the balcony. He said ‘yes’ and promptly closed the shop and took me out. From our conversation it was obvious that he was very proud of the boat and delighted in pointing out the closed circuit television camera that recorded all their rescues. Regrettably my photos of this lifeboat are on an external hard drive that is no longer working – the so called ‘click of death’.
Sources: Neil Rush’s Lifeboat World On-Line - http://www.lifeboatsonline.com/RNLIContents.html; http://www.newhavenlifeboat.co.uk/currentboat.html
Maldives 2013 Rf60 sg?, scott?
Peter Crichton
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Severn Class
First introduced in to service in 1996, although the prototype was built in 1992, and in total 46 examples were built by Green Marine and then being fitted out by Berthon Boat Company, VT Halmatic, Souter Marine or FBM Marine. Normally carry a 3-metre, 2-man Y-class inflatable dinghy. The final boat of class left Green Marine' Waterloo Road Factory in Lymington on 15/12/03 for fitting out at the nearby Berthon Boat facility. In 2009 it was announced that studies had been undertaken and that the hull-life would be extended to 50-years and the fleet would be re-engined. The first to be fitted with MTU 150hp model 10V2000 M93 engines, the first boat to undergo this was 17-46 in early 2009.
The Severn Class has a sheerline that sweeps down for ease of survivor recovery. She is inherently self-righting and should it be knocked over in extreme weather, it will automatically right itself within a few seconds. Her propellers and rudders lie in partial tunnels set into the hull that, along with the two bilge keels, provide excellent protection from damage in shallow water.
In addition to her twin engines, the Severn is fitted with a hydraulic-powered bow thruster for improved manoeuvrability.
The comprehensive electronics include VHF and MF radios with DSC functionality, VHF direction finder, DGPS with electronic chart system and radar.
The Severn carries a small Y boat, which is an inflatable daughter boat complete with a 15hp outboard engine. This small craft can be launched with a crane and is used in moderate conditions to access areas where the lifeboat cannot reach.
Comprehensive first aid equipment includes stretchers, oxygen and Entonox.
Other equipment includes a portable salvage pump carried in a watertight container.
Currently at Newhaven our station lifeboat is the RNLB DAVID AND ELIZABETH ACLAND, named after Mr David Acland DL who was a member of the RNLI's Committee of Management for 34 years and its Chairman from 1996 to 2000. She was built at FBM Marine Ltd of Cowes and placed on station in October 1999. She is the twenty-first of the Severn class boats built and the cost of £1.8 million was funded from a number of generous bequests from Phyllis Backshall, Elizabeth Mary Baldwin, William Charles Holman, Margaret Evelyn Tatham Lamb, Mabel Grace Stapleton, Noel Dudley Sutton, Dorothy Agnes Wood, Thirza Ellen Ivy Young and others.
RNLBDAVID AND ELIZABETH ACLAND
RNLI Official Number: 1243
Named after
Call Sign: MBSA3
Specifications:
Built in 1999
Dimensions 17m x 5.5m x 1.38m
Speed 25-knots
Displacement 40-tonnes
Range 250-nm
Construction Fibre Reinforced Composite
Endurance:
Engines 2 x Caterpillar 3412 (1250-hp) Crew 6
Survivor capacity: Self-righting – 28 - Non self-righting – 124
Placed on station at Newhaven, East Sussex, England, in October 1999.
Recent launches (station log):
8 January 2014
Solent Coastguard (CG) paged our Lifeboat Operations Manager (LOM) at 03:46 to request that we launch to assist a 12m local fishing vessel which had become caught on its own fishing gear. The vessel was approximately 7NM SSE of Newhaven and had 2 persons on board (PoB). The crew were paged at 03:53 and the lifeboat left the side at 04:02 arriving on scene at 04:31. Having checked that there was no gear in the water that could foul our propellers our towline was passed and we started a tow to Newhaven at 04:40 arriving at Newhaven breakwater at 05:43. Inside the harbour the vessel was brought up on the port side of the lifeboat so it could be placed on its own mooring at 06:03. The lifeboat was back on our berth at 06:05.
24 November 2013
Solent CG had received a VHF radio distress call from a 14ft day boat which was broken down and at anchor approximately 1NM south of Splash Point with 2 PoB. Our LOM was paged at 14:50 to request that we launch to assist. The crew were paged at 14:55 and the lifeboat left the side at 14:58 arriving on scene at 15:10. The casualties were requested to recover their anchor then we came alongside and took off the 2 occupants and 2 of our crew went aboard to secure the towline. We started to tow the vessel to Newhaven at 15:22 and when inside the harbour it was brought up alongside the lifeboat and then handed into the care of Newhaven CG at the marina slipway at 16:00. The lifeboat was back on our berth at 16:10.
21 November 2013
Our LOM was paged at 14:11 to request that we launch to recover a collie dog which had fallen from the cliff just west of Belle Toute lighthouse. Birling Gap CG were on scene with the owners and confirmed they had the dog visual and that is was alive and moving. The crew were paged at 14:15 and the lifeboat left the side at 14:22 arriving on scene at 14:43. The Y boat was launched at 14:47 with 2 PoB and one crew member went ashore to assess the condition of the dog, which could be seen on the rocky shore, while the Y boat returned to the ALB to pick up a further crew member. Miraculously despite being wet and shivering the dog was found to have no obvious injuries and was able to stand and walk. The dog was wrapped in blankets and gently placed aboard the Y boat at 15:16. The Y boat set off with 2 crew to meet with Birling Gap CG and the owners at Birling Gap. The third crew member started to walk towards Birling Gap as the tide was ebbing. The dog was landed into the care of Birling Gap CG and the owners at 15:22 to be taken to a vet to be checked for injuries. The third crew man joined the Y boat having walked back to the beach and the Y boat returned to the ALB and was recovered at 15:33. The lifeboat left the scene at 15:35 and was back alongside at 16:05.
This is the 5th time we have been called out to reports of dogs over the cliffs in the last 4 months and the only one of those where, unbelievably despite having fallen approximately 300 feet, the dog had survived.
27 October 2013
In response to 999 calls reporting a teenaged boy had been swept into the sea from the west beach at Newhaven, Solent CG paged the crew at 16:19 for an immediate launch. The lifeboat left the side at 16:25 and arrived on scene at the position he had last been sighted, very close to the beach where the western breakwater joins it, at 16:32. We approached to within a few metres of the last reported position in heavy breaking surf with a substantial backwash from the waves hitting the breakwater. 2 crew members were in dry suits with lines attached so they could enter the water quickly if the casualty was spotted. In extreme conditions with 3 to 4 metre seas and in shallow water the Coxswain managed to hold the lifeboat's position for nearly 2 hours while we thoroughly searched the area with darkness having fallen about halfway through this period.
Coastguard teams from Newhaven, Birling Gap and Shoreham carried out extensive searches along the beaches at Newhaven and in Seaford Bay. Sussex Police, South East Coast Ambulance and East Sussex Fire & Rescue all provided help in the searches ashore. Coastguard Rescue Helo 104 carried out a comprehensive search of the area. Having thoroughly searched the area off the beach and along the west of the breakwater we then searched the eastern side of the west breakwater followed by both sides of the east pier. We then searched from the end of the west breakwater across Seaford bay and back to the east pier at Newhaven before returning to the west beach and searching the area off the beach to the end of the breakwater twice.
Finally Solent CG requested that we carry out a search from approximately 3NM west of Newhaven back towards the breakwater. It was during this last search at 21:45 with further increasing winds and torrential driving rain bringing visibility right down that Solent CG stood us down and we made a slow search through the area back to harbour arriving back on our berth at 22:25. Regrettably despite our best efforts and those of all the other search teams ashore and in the air the casualty was not found.
I visited this RNLI station on 28 July 2010 to photograph the lifeboat. The only decent vantage point was a private balcony overlooking the lifeboat. I asked the gentleman running the gift shop if there was any chance of getting onto the balcony. He said ‘yes’ and promptly closed the shop and took me out. From our conversation it was obvious that he was very proud of the boat and delighted in pointing out the closed circuit television camera that recorded all their rescues. Regrettably my photos of this lifeboat are on an external hard drive that is no longer working – the so called ‘click of death’.
Sources: Neil Rush’s Lifeboat World On-Line - http://www.lifeboatsonline.com/RNLIContents.html; http://www.newhavenlifeboat.co.uk/currentboat.html
Maldives 2013 Rf60 sg?, scott?
Peter Crichton
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