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RNLB Keith Anderson (ON 1106)
History
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
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

The lifeboat Keith Anderson was a Arun class lifeboat which served at Newhaven for six years, in the relief fleet for one year and finished her RNLI career in Hartlepool in 2003 after serving for three years.

Procurement

This lifeboat was ordered to replace the Waveney-class Louis Marchesi of Round Table (ON 1045) at Newhaven which had served at the station for eight years. This important East Sussex station needed an improved class of lifeboat to enhance the stations capabilities. The Arun-class was considered to be suitable for this stations mooring facilities on the River Ouse which runs through the Port of Newhaven. She was laid down by VT Halmatic, she was sent to William Osborne in Littlehampton to be fitted out. During spring 1985 she underwent her self-righting trials following which all her electronic equipment was installed and commissioned. She was then sent to the RNLI depot at Poole.