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The Vincent lifeboat engine was a unique design of two-stroke petrol engine. It was developed during World War II as a highly efficient engine for airborne lifeboats, providing a long range from little fuel.

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Vincent lifeboat engine

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The Vincent lifeboat engine was a unique design of two-stroke petrol engine. It was developed during World War II as a highly efficient engine for airborne...

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Airborne lifeboat

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radio and enough fuel for 300 miles of travel. Lindholme Gear Vincent lifeboat engine Notes Morison, 2007, p. xxvi. Time, August 6, 1945. "World Battlefronts:...

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Lloyd Cars Ltd

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United States. List of British car manufacturers Vincent lifeboat engine – another two-stroke engine of comparable vintage, with two power cylinders sharing...

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Vincent Motorcycles

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name HRD, initially renaming it as Vincent HRD, producing his own motorcycles as HRD did previously with engines purchased as complete assemblies from...

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John Jacob Astor IV

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Second Officer Charles Lightoller later arrived on A Deck to finish loading Lifeboat 4, Astor helped his wife, with her maid and nurse, into it. He then asked...

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Little Ships of Dunkirk

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751), a Watson-class lifeboat from Aldeburgh Lifeboat Station No.1 Station. Cecil and Lilian Philpott (ON 730), a Watson-class lifeboat from Newhaven, Sussex...

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Vickers Warwick

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carrying an airborne lifeboat that was powered by two 1,850 hp (1,380 kW) Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp R-2800-S1A4G radial piston engines. 205 built. Warwick...

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Phil Irving

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Repco-Brabham Formula One and Vincent motorcycle engines. He also worked at Velocette motorcycles, twice, and drew the engine of the 1960 EMC 125cc racer...

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SS Andrea Doria

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way as she took on water, which left half of her lifeboats unusable. The consequent shortage of lifeboats could have resulted in significant loss of life...

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Crew of the Titanic

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did not survive   The crew member survived Survivors are listed with the lifeboat from which they were known to be rescued by the RMS Carpathia, on 15 April...

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Madeleine Astor

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to board a lifeboat, Madeleine Astor, her maid, and her nurse had to crawl through the first-class promenade window into the tilting lifeboat 4 (which had...

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Titan submersible implosion

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on 20 June 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2023. Kelly, Mary Louise; Acovino, Vincent; Ermyas, Tinbete (20 June 2023). "A former passenger details what it's...

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Mediterranean Shipping Company

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including a crack in one side and a flooded engine room. All 26 crew were picked up from their lifeboat by Sea King helicopters of the Royal Navy's Fleet...

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HMHS Britannic

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to put the first lifeboat onto the water without waiting for the order to do so. Bartlett then decided to stop the ship and her engine. Before he could...

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Wolseley Motors

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Saunders Limited at Cowes, Isle of Wight. Special engines were made for lifeboats. In 1906 horizontal engines of sixteen cylinders were designed and constructed...

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HMT Empire Windrush

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prevented many of them from being launched. Each set of lifeboat davits carried two lifeboats. But without electric power, raising the wire ropes to lower...

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Outline of transport

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sewer Slurry Water Ship transport Barge Boat Jet ski Jetboat Lifeboat (rescue) Lifeboat (shipboard) Narrowboat Punt (boat) Wherry Ferry Cable ferry Horse-drawn...

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Rhoda Abbott

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turn to enter the lifeboat, she realized that her sons would be denied a spot, and stepping back, refused a place in the lifeboat. When the ship sank...

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Carnival Cruise Line

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29, 2018, lifeboat number 28 broke loose from the Carnival Dream for unknown reasons and was damaged. Carnival decided to abandon the lifeboat at sea and...

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Sinking of the RMS Lusitania

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Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1961. Johnston gifted an inshore lifeboat, Amy Lea, to New Quay Lifeboat Station in 2004 in memory of her mother. Audrey Johnston...

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