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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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    base of the Longhope lifeboat until 1906, when it was replaced. The lifeboat station that stands slightly to the south of the original station cost £2,700...
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    RNLB Thomas McCunn (ON 759) is a 45ft 6in Watson-class lifeboat stationed at Longhope in Orkney, Scotland, from January 1933 until April 1962. During which...
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    Longhope Lifeboat Museum is a museum at Brims on the island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The museum's main exhibit is the former lifeboat Thomas...
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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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  • lost in the Longhope lifeboat disaster, when the lifeboat capsized in a storm on 17 March 1969. Coxswain Brian Bevan MBE of the Humber lifeboat is the only...
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    years at a property in Scarfskerry was later presented by TSAC to Longhope Lifeboat station as a mark of respect for the heroic work carried out by the RNLI...
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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 2003. "Details...
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    Aith Lifeboat Station is located at Aith, on the island of Shetland, and is the most northerly of the 238 Royal National Lifeboat Institution Lifeboat Stations...
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    Tamar-class lifeboats are all-weather lifeboats (ALBs) operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) around the coasts of Great Britain and...
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