Solent-Class Lifeboat 48
headingdetails Solent-Class Lifeboat 48
- Sleeping places
2 + 2 - year built
1969 - Berth
Ameland - Category
Former commercial ship
+316-19730566
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- Dimensions
14,78 x 4,30 x 1,42 m. - Engine
2 x Gardner 110 HP (81 kW) Diesel - Construction material
Steel - Reference number
195012
General
- Construction material
- Corten steel
- Hull shape
- Round bilged
- Deck
- Steel non skid
- Superstructure
- Aluminium
- Rudder
- 2 x
- Steering system
- Mathway mechanical wheel steering
- Windows
- In aluminium and portholes
- Displacement
- 27,000 kg.
- Airdraft
- 3.30 m.
- Yard
- Groves & Guttridge Ltd., East Cowes Isle of Wight
- Designer
- Royal National Lifeboat Institution
- Building number
- 1007
This Solent-Class Lifeboat 48 was built as the first of a series of 11 lifeboats for the R.N.L.I. and was called "George Urie Scott". The Solent-Class Lifeboat 48 was the first series of lifeboats with a steel hull; until then a wooden hull was common. It was the last type designed by the R.N.L.I.
The Solent-Class Lifeboat 48 is built as a self-aligning lifeboat. What was new was that this was done by means of a watertight structure instead of a complicated system based on water ballast.
The "George Urie Scott" has sailed under the R.N.L.I. Operational Number 48-004. In the period 1969-1978 and 1985-1989 the location was Lochinver in Scotland and from 1979 to 1984 Rosslare Harbor in Ireland. A total of 50 actions were carried out, in which 6 people were saved.
The current owner of the Solent-Class Lifeboat 48, which has since been renamed "Highlander", has made both sea and domestic voyages. The hull was completely sandblasted in 2008. In November 2018, the underwater ship was again sandblasted and put in epoxy. The hull was also painted then. The superstructure was painted in June 2018.
Accommodation
- Material
- Mahogany interior
- Saloons
- Wheel house, Front cabin with engine room and 2 - person, Aft cabin with galley
- Cabins
- 2
- Berth
- 2 + 2
- Headroom wheelhouse
- 2.10 m.
- Headroom fore ship
- 1.90 m.
- Headroom aft cabin
- 1.70; Galley 2.00 m.
- Bedsize front cabin
- 2.00 x 0.80 m. (2 x)
- Bedsize aft cabin
- 1,85 x 2,10 (length x width)
- Toilet
- Toilet room with an electrical toilet and sink
- Television
- Solara flatscreen DVD-player
- Cooking device
- 3 - Flame gas cooker
- Microwave
- Siemens
- Refridgerator
- Indel 84 litres
- Heating
- Webasto Air Top Evo 3900 3.9 kW
- Sliding hatch
- In aft cabin above the galley
Engine
- Brand / type
- Gardner 6LX
- Power
- 110 HP, 81 kW
- Number of cylinders
- 6
- Cooling system
- Intercooling
- Year built
- 1969
- Number of engines
- 2
- Fuel
- Diesel
- Fuel tank(s)
- 817 Litres maintank and 263 litres daytank
- Tank meter
- KDG for the maintank and daytank
- Gearbox
- 2 x Gardner mechanical, hydraulically controlled
- Propulsion
- 2 x Shaft
- Cruising speed
- 7 Kn.
- Max. speed
- 10 Kn.
- Consumption
- At cruising speed 7 liters per engine per hour
- Instruments
- 2 x Smith tachometer, 2 x Watertemperature, 2 x Smith oiltemperature, 2 x Smith exhausttemperature, 2 x Smith oilpressure, 4 x Gardner oilpressure
- Bow thruster
- Ameq 15 HP
- Engine control
- 1 - Handle
The cruising speed of 7 Kn. is reached at 700 RPM and the maximum speed of 10 Kn. at 1,100 RPM.
Electrics
- Voltage
- 12, 24 and 220 Volt
- Batteries
- Two sets of 4 x 6 Volt traction batteries
- Shore power
- Yes
- Alternator
- 2 x 24 Volt
- Batterycharger
- Mastervolt Mass 24/50 50 A.
- Generator
- DG5500E 5.5 kW diesel (2008)
- Inverter
- Samlex Europe PST-150S-24E 1,500 W. and Victron Phoenix Inverter 24/350 350 W.
- Converter
- 24 - 12 Volt 20 A.
- Isolation transformer
- 1,600 W.
- Control panel
- Schwitch panel
- Voltmeter
- 2 x
- Ampère meter
- 4 x
Water
- Water tank(s)
- 100 Litres stainless steel
- Pressure system
- Pressure barrel
- Hot water
- 80 Litres water heater (heated over the engine)
Navigation and electronics
- Navigation ligths
- Yes
- Compass
- Sestrel
- Fish finder
- Eagle Ultra II
- Autopilot
- Furuno Navpilot 720
- Rudder position
- Mechanical
- Radar
- Raytheon R40XX
- GPS
- Furuno GP-31
- Chartplotter
- Raytheon RC435i
- VHF
- Icom IC-M411 and Furuno FM2721
- A.I.S.
- CTRX
- Navtex
- Nasa Weatherman
Deck equipment
- Anchor
- 1 x 80 kg. and 1 x 30 kg.
- Anchor winch
- Electrically hydraulic
- Railing
- Steel with stainless steel wire
- Other
- With 100 meters of drag wire
Safety
- Life raft
- Safeguard 4 - persons
- Bilge pump
- 2 x Electrical, 1 x on each engine with distribution over the compartments
- Ventilator
- 4 x Engine room, 1 x aft cabin, 1 x front cabin
- Wiper
- 4 x
- Search light
- 1 x
- Watertight door
- 3 x
- Fire prevention
- 1 x Fire extinguisher and an automatic fire extinguisher in the engine room
- Gas locker
- Stainless steel with 1 bottle
