Type: Navy Pilot Vessel (Boat)
Year built: 1950
At: Gebroeders Pot, Bolnes, The Netherlands

Length: 45.87 m, 150.49 ft
Beam: 8.43 m, 27.66 ft
Draft: 3.50 m, 11.48 ft
Displacement: 500 tonnes (metric)
Engine: 750 HP Smit M.A.N. 6 cyl. Diesel
Speed: 13.2 knots
Range: 7,000 nm
Crew: 52 (when commissioned as a Pilot Boat)
Armament: 1x 3"/76.2 mm cannon, 2x 20 mm Oerlikons, 4x 40 mm Bofors, 2x depth charges
The role of the Castor had to be two-fold. She was designed as both a Pilot Boat and also a Navy ship. She was commissioned by the Royal Netherlands Navy (pennant A810) and armed with a 3"/76 mm cannon on her foredeck.
After 34 years of service Castor lost her commission as a Pilot Boat and was sold to a private company, which used her as a hydrographic survey vessel for a brief period. A British church society called SeaCare bought her in 1988. The ensuing 11 years she roamed the oceans of the world under her new name, Redeemer, with her crew providing help to those in need.

Previous names & owners

1950 - 1984 Castor - Nederlands Loodswezen

26.09.1983 out of service

15.02.1984 sold not renamed

10.1988 sold England

1989 - 1999 REDEMEER - Seacare Shipping Company, Valletta - Malta

1999 - 2006 Redeemer - Spindrift Navigation LTD, Belize

2006 Castor - van Parijs / Cornelissen