Andrew Stanley Keyworth (2 December 1923–25 July 1996) was a New Zealand master mariner. He was born in

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

on 2 December 1923. Long-time captain for the

Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited was once the biggest shipping line in the southern hemisphere and New Zealand's largest private-sector employer. It was incorporated by James Mills in Dunedin in 1875 with the backing of a Scot ...

, Keyworth is famous for his rescue of the ''Union Rotorua'' while captaining the ''

Union Rotoiti ''Union Rotoiti'' was a large roll-on/roll-off vessel operated on the trans Tasman route by the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand (USSCo.). Along with her sister ship ''Union Rotorua'', she was unusual in that she originally had turbo-elect ...

'' in 1980.

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