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Norsk redningskutter nr. 1 "Colin Archer".
RS1 blev for "Norsk selskab til skibsbrudnes redning" bygget i 1893 på
Colin Archer værftet i Rekkevig ved Larvik, Norge. RS1 blev døbt "Colin
Archer" efter sin konstruktør og bygger.
"Colin Archer" blev gennem sin spidsgatter konstruktion senere
verdensberømt.
Der blev bygget ca. 30 fartøjer af denne type. De fleste på Colin Archers
værft på Tollerodden i Larvik.
RS1 Colin Archer har haft en bevæget fortid: 40 år som sejlende
redningskutter. I 1933 blev Colin Archer solgt til private, som lagde en
lille hjælpemotor i, 1938 over Atlanten, oktober 1954 svært beskadiget
i en storm ved North Carolina, i december 1960 fundet som vrag ved
Potomac River. "Colin Archer" kom tilbage til Norge december 1961,
som dækslast på fragtskibet "M/S Tasco" efter 23 år i USA. Derefter
forskellige ejer, og gode og dårlige tider. Endelig den 21. april 1972
blev det ældste norske redningskutter RS1 overgivet til det Norske
søfartsmuseum i Oslo.
I 1973 blev ansvaret for Colin Archer overladt til sejlkutterklubben Colin
Archer som har restaureret skibet totalt og sejler den som et flydende
kulturminde efter aftale med Norsk Søfartsmuseum.
Idag er RS1 "Colin Archer" en meget velkommen gæst på mange
veteranskibstræf i hele Nordeuropa.
Norwegian salvage cutter no. 1 "Colin Archer"
RS1 was built in 1893 for the "Norwegian Society for Shipwreck Salvage"
at the Colin Archer shipyard in Rekkevig near Larvik,
Norway. RS1 was later named "Colin Archer" after its designer and
builder. The sharp-sterned design of the vessel has given it world-wide
reknown. Roughly 30 boats of this type were built, most of them at the
Colin Archer shipyard at Tollerodden in Larvik.
RS1 Colin Archer has had an eventful past. After 40 years as a salvage
vessel, the ship was sold in 1933 to private owners, who added a small
auxiliary motor. It crossed the Atlantic in 1938, suffered severe storm
damage in North Carolina in October 1954, and was found as a wreck on
the Potomac River in 1960. After 23 years in the USA, the Colin Archer
was returned to Norway in December of 1961 as deck cargo on the
freighter "MS Tasco". Then followed a series of owners - and both good
and hard times. Finally, on 21 April 1972, the oldest salvage vessel in
Norway was handed over to the Norwegian Maritime Museum in Oslo.
In 1973, responsibility for the vessel was given to the Colin Archer
Cutter Club, which has since completely restored the ship and sails it,
in agreement with the Norwegian Maritime Museum, as a functioning
reminder of the past.
Today the Colin Archer is a welcome guest at vintage ship gatherings in
Northern Europe.
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