• Thumbnail for Stromness Lifeboat Station
    Stromness Lifeboat Station is located in the harbour town of Stromness, the second largest town of Mainland, Orkney, in the isles of Orkney, Scotland....
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    early charts, but since about 1920, the name Stromness has been consistently used. Its name, Stromness, derives from the similarly named town in the...
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    the fifth lifeboat to have served at Aith. Despite valiant attempts by Lerwick Life-Saving Company, and even the Stromness lifeboat stationed 120 miles...
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    Longhope Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Longhope on the island of South Walls...
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    nearest lifeboat at the time was at Stromness, which made a journey of 55 hours and 360 miles (580 km), but to no avail. Lerwick lifeboat station became...
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    the Longhope Lifeboat Museum, which has on display lifeboat Thomas McCunn, stationed here from 1933 to 1962. In 2000 an Arun-class lifeboat, Sir Max Aitken...
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    Barnett-class lifeboat consists of three types of non self-righting displacement hull lifeboats operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)...
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  • the rescue. The Stromness Lifeboat Station was alerted to the unsuccessful attempt by 4pm 30 March. By 4:45pm the Stromness Lifeboat departed, reaching...
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    Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) stations are the bases for the RNLI's fleet of search and rescue lifeboats that cover the coastal waters around...
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    after the River Severn, the longest river in Great Britain. The lifeboats are stationed at 35 locations around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland...
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    the rescue. The Stromness Lifeboat Station was alerted to the unsuccessful attempt by 4pm 30 March. By 4:45pm the Stromness Lifeboat departed, reaching...
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    Fortuna Glacier in the process. Thirty-six hours later they reached Stromness whaling station. When Argentina militarily occupied the Falkland Islands and South...
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    whistle sound from Stromness, "the first sound created by an outside human agency that had come to our ears since we left Stromness Bay in December 1914"...
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  • Thumbnail for Arun-class lifeboat
    Arun-class lifeboat was a fast all-weather lifeboat designed by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) for service at its stations around the...
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    sinking happened 12 miles north of the nearest Lifeboat Station at Stromness. There is speculation whether lifeboat intervention would have made any difference...
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    funds to pay for the first Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat to be stationed at Stromness, Orkney. The boat was duly named Saltaire...
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    linking the Scottish mainland with Stromness on Orkney. There is also a large fishmart and the local lifeboat is stationed there too. From June 2007, a summer-only...
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    Flotta. The RNLI lifeboat Thomas McCunn is on display at the Longhope Lifeboat Museum in Brims, which was the Longhope Lifeboat Station until 1999. "Details...
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    through their boots to serve as crampons. They arrived at the whaling station at Stromness, tired and dirty, hair long and matted, faces blackened by months...
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    listed building on Broad Street. There is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat station. One of the major annual events in the town is the Ba Game...
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    The lifeboats that have served here since have also been stationed at Longhope, including the current vessel the Helen Comrie (a Tamar-class lifeboat) and...
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    for 36 hours through snow, ice and mountains to fetch help from Stromness whaling station. In August, Worsley and Shackleton returned to Elephant Island...
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    McNish, Tim McCarthy, and John Vincent on a 1,300 km (800 mi) voyage in the lifeboat James Caird beginning on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, and arriving at...
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    dangerous mountainous terrain for 36 hours, reaching the whaling station at Stromness on 20 May. The next successful crossing of South Georgia was in October...
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    piers for commercial traffic and Stornoway Lifeboat Station, run by the RNLI and home to a Severn-class lifeboat, Tom Sanderson. His Majesty's Coastguard...
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    the mountainous interior of South Georgia to the historic whaling station of Stromness. The project, led by Jarvis, was the first successful recreation...
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    display. An RNLI lifeboat has been stationed at Longhope since 1874; the old lifeboat house is now a museum with a former Longhope lifeboat Thomas McCunn...
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    conditions allowed them to be taken off the island by means of the Lerwick Lifeboat. Before the Lerwick boat reached the island, two separate boats from Orkney...
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  • Thumbnail for Alfred Cheetham
    crushed in pack ice and the men set up for Elephant Island in the three lifeboats, he was part of Worsley's crew in the Dudley Docker. Worsley mentions...
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  • Thumbnail for MV Isle of Lewis
    returning from an overhaul at North Shields, Isle of Lewis called at Stromness, Orkney for the purpose of 'showing the flag' to demonstrate CalMac's...
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