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Andrew Stanley Keyworth

Master mariner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4758628 ↗
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Andrew Stanley Keyworth (2 December 1923 – 25 July 1996) was a New Zealand master mariner. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 2 December 1923.

Long-time captain for the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Keyworth is famous for his rescue of the Union Rotorua while captaining the Union Rotoiti in 1980.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 1996, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-12-02. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Andrew, Stanley and Keyworth providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Andrew Stanley Keyworth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.