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    Falmouth Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Falmouth, Cornwall in the United...
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    developed from 1858, and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) opened Falmouth Lifeboat Station nearby in 1867. The present building dates from...
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    many lifeboat stations where the class was expected to be deployed. It so impressed the crew at Falmouth that they pressed the RNLI to station it there...
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    following the allocation of a faster boat to Falmouth Lifeboat Station. A coxswain of the Coverack lifeboat, Archie Rowe, was a subject of This Is Your...
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    the Penlee Lifeboat Station near Mousehole, went to the aid of the vessel Union Star after its engines failed in heavy seas. After the lifeboat had rescued...
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    both the Porthoustock and Falmouth lifeboats. As a result of these two incidents, it was decided to establish a lifeboat station at Coverack, where sufficient...
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    Mersey-class lifeboats are All-weather lifeboats operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) from stations around the coasts of Great Britain...
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    Fowey Lifeboat Station is the base for Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) search and rescue operations at Fowey on the south coast of Cornwall...
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    Cornwall | Falmouth, Cornwall". Retrieved 5 October 2011. Phillipson, David (14 April 1994). All Her Glories Past: Story of the Zetland Lifeboat. Smith Settle...
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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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