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    Yarmouth Lifeboat station (not to be confused with Great Yarmouth and Gorleston) is an RNLI station located in the town of Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight...
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    Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station (not to be confused with Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight) is a RNLI base in Norfolk, England. There were originally...
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    RNLB Margaret Russell Fraser (ON 1108) (category Yarmouth lifeboats)
    across the Irish Sea to Yarmouth Lifeboat Station on the Isle of Wight, her first English station posting. While at Yarmouth she was involved in the October...
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    Caister Lifeboat Station is located in the village and seaside resort of Caister-on-Sea, on the east coast of the county of Norfolk. A lifeboat was first...
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  • Winterton Lifeboat Station was located in the town of Winterton-on-Sea, on the north-east coast of Norfolk. A lifeboat was first stationed here by the...
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  • Palling Lifeboat Station was located at the town of Palling, on the north-east coast of Norfolk. A lifeboat was first stationed here by the Norfolk Association...
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    Disaster at Yarmouth: The Eastern Daily Press" 12 November 1888 Morris, Jeff (March 2004). The Closed Lifeboat Stations of Kent. Lifeboat Enthusiasts...
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  • Theddlethorpe Lifeboat Station was located near the village of Theddlethorpe St Helen, on the east coast of the county of Lincolnshire. A lifeboat was first...
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    Alnmouth Lifeboat Station is a former Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station, which was located at the village of Alnmouth, near the town...
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    Hauxley Lifeboat Station was located in the village of Hauxley, in the county of Northumberland. The Warkworth Harbour lifeboat was first stationed here...
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    and a motor lifeboat at both Yarmouth and Bembridge, it was decided to withdraw the lifeboat. Brook Lifeboat Station closed on the 31 March 1937. The...
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    Tynemouth Lifeboat Station is located on the River Tyne, at Fish Quay, North Shields, in the county of Tyne and Wear. A lifeboat was first stationed across...
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    Institution in October 1969 after the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station received a 44ft Waveney class lifeboat which was deemed fast enough to cover...
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    Boulmer Lifeboat Station is a former Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station, which was located at the village of Boulmer in the county of...
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  • from Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Lifeboat Station. Following the closure in November 2011, the station's D-class (IB1) and XP-class lifeboats were added...
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    a lifeboat at Great Yarmouth since at least 1802. Early boats were privately operated, until the RNLI took over in 1857. It has a lifeboat station at...
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    Lytham Lifeboat Station is a 'former' lifeboat station, (by virtue of its merger), located in the Fylde coast town of Lytham, Lancashire. A lifeboat was...
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    Amble Lifeboat Station is located at Radcliffe Quay, Warkworth Harbour, in the town of Amble, at the mouth of the River Coquet, in the county of Northumberland...
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  • Finnpulp was the first ship on the scene, aiding the first lifeboat, which carried the Yarmouth Castle's captain. After picking up the passengers and some...
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    Civil Service lifeboats are a group of lifeboats belonging to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution which have been funded by The Lifeboat Fund. They usually...
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    The Shannon-class lifeboat (previously FCB2 – Fast Carriage Boat 2) is the latest class of lifeboat currently being deployed to the RNLI fleet to serve...
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    Arun-class lifeboat Margaret Russell Fraser (ON 1108). Margaret Russell Fraser had come across the Solent from Yarmouth Lifeboat Station on the Isle...
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    Lifeboat is a voluntary run lifeboat station located in the village of Mundesley in the English county of Norfolk. The station operates one lifeboat which...
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    Portpatrick Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboats at Portpatrick in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It...
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    William Fleming (lifeboatman) (category Royal National Lifeboat Institution people)
    the Lifeboat station. He joined the crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat in the mid-1880s. Billy Fleming served on the Gorleston lifeboat through...
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    Atherfield Lifeboat Station was located at Atherfield Point, near the village of Atherfield, on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight. A lifeboat was first...
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    which discharges into the North Sea at Great Yarmouth. In the 1960s the RNLI's fleet consisted of motor lifeboats of limited speed due to the shape of their...
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    the lifeboat station in October 1969 after the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat station received a fast 44 ft (13 m) Waveney-class lifeboat. The...
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    Countess Howe (ON 968) was the first RNLI lifeboat to be built with radar installed and went on station at Yarmouth in February 1963. It was four years before...
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  • Since its inception, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has provided lifeboats to lifeboat stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Once...
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