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    Port Isaac Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) inshore lifeboat operations at Port Isaac in Cornwall, United Kingdom...
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    1993 it has been kept in the lifeboat station built in 1927; the original lifeboat station is now a shop. Port Isaac's lifeboat has been the D-class Copeland...
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  • serve at Mornington from 1901 to 1902, and become the Port Isaac lifeboat from 1905 to 1927. The station building was handed over to Drogheda Corporation for...
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  • Steam-class lifeboats are a small group of six steam powered lifeboats, and one steam-tug lifeboat, built between 1889 and 1901. The first 3 were the first...
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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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    1961, of the Lizard and Cadgwith lifeboats and the opening of a new lifeboat station, the Lizard-Cadgwith Lifeboat Station, at Kilcobben Cove. This is approximately...
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    Salcombe Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Salcombe, Devon in England. The first...
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    Mousehole (category Ports and harbours of Cornwall)
    [better source needed] Although a lifeboat had been available in Mount's Bay for many years, a new lifeboat station at Penlee Point, on the outskirts...
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    Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station located in the Port of Ramsgate in the English county of Kent. The station is...
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    attract help as the passengers were put into lifeboats. In accordance with existing practice, the Titanic's lifeboat system was designed to ferry passengers...
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    The village has had an RNLI lifeboat station since 1870. The boathouse cost £175 to build. Between 1899 and 1931, the lifeboat saved 158 lives. In 1988,...
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    St. Peter Port (French: Saint-Pierre Port) is a town and one of the ten parishes on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is the capital of...
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    Dunmore East (category Ports and harbours of the Republic of Ireland)
    The first official woman crew member in a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Lifeboat was based at Dunmore East. Tourism in Dunmore East is supported...
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    D-class (IB1) lifeboats are inflatable boats serving in the RNLI inshore lifeboat (ILB) fleet as well as a number of Independent Lifeboats around the UK...
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    St Abbs (category Ports and harbours of Scotland)
    independent Lifeboat Station. The lifeboat station was originally established in 1911 following the sinking of the S.S. Alfred Erlandsen. The station was previously...
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    factor in both the capsizing and the crew's inability to lower the port-side lifeboats. The bulkheads of the watertight compartments extended only up to...
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    islands (1913–14). Port Douzième (Twelfth Port) is a hut and former geomagnetic station on the southern shore of the Golfe du Morbihan. Port Jeanne d'Arc is...
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    The D-class (Zodiac III) lifeboat is a class of inflatable boat operated between 1971 and 1996 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of the United...
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    London for Port Elizabeth laden with 600 barrels of whisky, 400 barrels of brandy and barrels of rum. The 16 crew were saved by lifeboat. 13 May – fishing...
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    town on the shore of Lake Erie. The Canadian Coast Guard stationed the Cape-class motor lifeboat CCGS Cape Lambton in the community in 2005. Certain segments...
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    money for, and encourages participation with the Staithes and Runswick Lifeboat Station. Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage takes place in September each...
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    funded the setting up of Cullercoats Lifeboat Station. The following year a second disaster, this time costing 20 lifeboat crew their lives, prompted the Duke...
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  • Public Service. James Michael Keggen. Coxswain, Port St Mary Lifeboat Station, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. For voluntary services to Maritime...
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    D-class (RFD PB16) lifeboat was the first of a class of inflatable boat operated between 1963 and 2007 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of the...
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    near the cargo hold and several dents. Near Port Franks, Ontario, two bodies were found with a capsized lifeboat from Regina and another ten bodies were found...
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    reached Stornoway by 03:30 hrs. The Coxswain and Secretary of Stornoway Lifeboat Station were summoned, but the senior Royal Navy officer in the town, Rear...
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  • Chair, Lifeboat Management Group, Swanage Lifeboat Station, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. For voluntary service to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution...
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    needed rescue, surfboats from several stations launched to attempt a rescue. The second in command of Dailey's lifeboat stated that his wife was dying at...
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    Station Niagara Station Oswego Station Rochester Marine Safety Detachment Massena Sector Detroit Station Belle Isle Station Marblehead Station Port Huron...
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    several men who had attempted to salvage her were rescued by lifeboats from Port Isaac and Padstow, following which she rapidly sank. Attempts by three...
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