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anyone for an arun class
i want it just reading spring 2004 RNLI lifeboat booklet and they have four for
sale at 1.5 million new 150 thousand is a bargain and the spec is the best
Arun Class All Weather Lifeboat
one owner with full service history will go any were don,t mind bad weather
The Arun is the first lifeboat ever to win a Design Council Award which was presented to the RNLI by his Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh in 1982.
It is one of the largest of the Institution’s fast afloat all weather boats, and as this title suggests, it lies permanently afloat in harbours. There are now 36 Aruns in the lifeboat fleet, and they have carried out spectacular rescues in which their speed, power and manoeuvrability have played an important part. The watertight superstructure buoyancy will initiate self righting if the boat should capsize.
The hull is based on a design by A McLachlan of Watsons of Glasgow, and the fitout and superstructure were designed by the RNLI’s own Technical Department.
The first Arun, launched in 1971, continued the pattern of introducing faster lifeboats into the RNLI Fleet which started with the Waverney Class in 1966. The Arun, at 18 knots, was twice as fast as earlier classes of lifeboats due to her semi-planing hull form. Lifeboats with displacement hulls and protected propellers in tunnels, are restricted to 8 - 9 knots.
Aruns have glass fibre hulls with aluminium structures. The hull is divided into 26 watertight compartments. Void spaces are filled with buoyant materials, giving reserve buoyancy if the boat is holed. Powerful twin diesel engines provide the propulsion.
There are two survivor’s cabins below deck containing rescue equipment including first aid gear, stretchers, emergency rations and blankets. An inflatable boat and liferaft are carried. The coxswain can steer from inside the wheelhouse or from a flying bridge on top of the superstructure. Intercom links the flying bridge, wheelhouse and deck.
All Aruns have been updated with MF/VHF DSC equipment, DGPS navigator, electronic chart system, and VHF/DF. Aruns carry the same First Aid equipment as Severns, and a salvage pump, in a watertight transfer container.
Inside the wheelhouse there is a seat with safety belts and arm rests, for each member of the crew. There are special positions for the coxswain, navigator, radio operator, mechanic and crew numbers and provision for a doctor. The radar scanner has been made watertight so that it will continue to work after the lifeboat has self righted.
Aruns are being replaced by Severns or Trents as part of the RNLI’s continuing development programme.
Length 52 ft (15.9/ m)
Breadth 17 ft (5.2 m)
Displacement 32 tons
Load draught aft 5 ft (1.5 m)
Load draught forward 3 ft 9 in (1.1 m)
Engines 2 x Caterpillar 3408TA 460/48 Shp diesel
Max Speed 18.5 knots
Range at full speed 250 nm
Crew 6
the bad bit
only comes in grey
it is a condition of sale that the rnli colours are not reinstated
if you have some cash to spend i think it would better than a sports car
just contact the RNLI only four left
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