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    Solent Rescue is an independent inshore rescue lifeboat, not run by the RNLI, based at Lepe Country Park south of the New Forest, on the north shore of...
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    The Solent (/ˈsoʊlənt/ SOH-lənt) is a strait between the Isle of Wight and mainland Great Britain; the major historic ports of Southampton and Portsmouth...
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  • memories. Solent Rescue – a nearby lifeboat station Yandell, Chris (11 March 2021). "Former Venturers boss Philip Pearce-Smith dies aged 88". "Lepe Rescue in...
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  • dictionary. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lifeboats. Solent Rescue — Independent Lifeboat Rescue Organisation (UK) Roberts Bank Lifeboat, Delta BC, Canada...
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    Lee-on-the-Solent, often referred to as Lee-on-Solent, is a seaside district of the borough of Gosport in Hampshire, England, about five miles (8 km) west...
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  • Independent lifeboats in Britain and Ireland (category Sea rescue organisations of the United Kingdom)
    "Sidmouth Lifeboat - About Us". Retrieved 20 September 2021. "About Solent Rescue". Archived from the original on 26 May 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014....
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  • The Short Solent is a passenger flying boat that was produced by Short Brothers in the late 1940s. It was developed from the Short Seaford, itself a development...
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  • Patrol Severn Area Rescue Association Ryde Inshore Rescue Service Solent Rescue Southport Offshore Rescue Trust Burnham Area Rescue Boat Caister Volunteer...
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    Royal Naval Air Station Lee-on-Solent, (RNAS Lee-on-Solent; or HMS Daedalus 1939–1959 & 1965–1996 and HMS Ariel 1959–1965), is a former Royal Naval Air...
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  • Solent Airport Daedalus is a general aviation airport in Hampshire, England. Between 1917 and 1996 the site was RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus), a Royal...
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  • The Solent-class lifeboat is a steel-hulled version of the 48-foot-6-inch (14.78 m) Oakley-class self-righting lifeboat and is sometimes referred to as...
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    The Royal Air Force Search and Rescue Force (RAF SARF or RAF SAR Force) was an official unit of the Royal Air Force (RAF) which provided around-the-clock...
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  • unintelligible] OUT [EG 93] Solent Coastguard, Solent Coastguard, this is Echo Golf niner three. SAY AGAIN. OVER At this juncture, Solent Coastguard would reply...
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    a full member of the Solent Sea-Rescue Organisation (SSRO), and under the direct control of H.M. Coastguard at Lee-on-the-Solent. The SSRO was set up...
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    MV Höegh Osaka (category Shipwrecks in the Solent)
    list, went out of control and grounded in the Solent. Her 24 crewmembers and a pilot were subsequently rescued. The ship is 179.90 metres (590 ft 3 in) long...
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    His Majesty's Coastguard (category Sea rescue organisations of the United Kingdom)
    Maritime Operations Centre at Fareham. Incorporating Solent Coastguard, the UK Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre (ARCC) and UK Cospas-Sarsat Mission...
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    the deficiencies in the rescue system when a seaplane tender, despatched to save the survivors of an airplane crash in the Solent, arrived too late to save...
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    the cliffs above the beach, part of the view of the Western Solent is used by Solent Rescue Independent Lifeboat station. Inchmery Quay lies to the west...
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    residential area and village on the coast of the Solent. It is located south of Stubbington, west of Lee-on-the-Solent and south east of Titchfield, in the borough...
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    782982, -1.163868) is an area of the Solent that lies just south of Gosport, between Portsmouth and Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. There is a shingle beach...
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    2 to 5 miles (3 to 8 kilometres) off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent. It is the largest and second-most populous island in England. Referred...
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  • Naval Aircraft Technical Evaluation Centre (NATEC) building at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus). In February 1995, the RNSES become part of the Royal Navy...
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    the River Alver flows into The Solent at Stokes Bay. Further west from Browndown point is the district of Lee-on-the-Solent with the former RNAS Daedalus...
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  • The 1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash occurred on the Isle of Wight in England on 15 November. With 45 lives lost, at the time it was the second worst aircraft...
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  • NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue, in which he voiced Mr. Ages. Vivian Arthur Rivers Malet was born on 24 September 1927 in Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire, England...
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    operated by Gosport and Fareham Inshore Rescue Service (GAFIRS), it operates free lifeboat services in the Solent from Portsmouth Harbour to Titchfield...
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    M27 motorway. It is predominantly residential but includes the extensive Solent Business Park. In 1995 Cams Hall, a derelict Palladian mansion, was restored...
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    north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, Dorset to the west, and Wiltshire to the north-west. The city...
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    February 2015 the St Faith suffered an engine failure in the middle of the Solent around 20 minutes into the 8 am crossing to the Isle of Wight. The captain...
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    including the SR.N2, which operated across the Solent, in 1962, and later the SR.N6, which operated across the Solent from Southsea to Ryde on the Isle of Wight...
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