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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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    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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  • 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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    name HRD, initially renaming it as Vincent HRD, producing his own motorcycles as HRD did previously with engines purchased as complete assemblies from...
    46 KB (5,284 words) - 22:40, 2 December 2023
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    Arnault made a deal with Vincent to lend him the two lifeboats for Le Musée Maritime Chantereyne at Cherbourg. The lifeboats were left outdoors and, over...
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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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    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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    starter. Spring starters can be found in engine-generators and hydraulic power packs, and on lifeboat engines, with the most common application being backup...
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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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    The Oakley-class lifeboat refers to two types of self-righting lifeboat operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) around the coast of...
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  • Vickers Warwick (category Twin piston-engined tractor aircraft)
    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 (category Vincent designers)
    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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    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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  • second into the rescue zone, the craft was powered by a Vincent motorcycles HRD T5 15 hp engine; sails and a fishing kit were also provided. The Mark 3...
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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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    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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    her duties as Head Engineer, but her plans to remain indefinitely in the engine room are threatened by the arrival of Mr. Wilford and the surprise return...
    183 KB (12,166 words) - 02:39, 22 July 2024
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    to stop the engines before any more boats were lost. By 08:50, most of those on board had escaped in the 35 successfully launched lifeboats. At this point...
    63 KB (7,133 words) - 09:15, 19 July 2024
  • sink within two hours, and both realise that the ship lacks sufficient lifeboat capacity for all the passengers. Distress signals are sent out, but the...
    46 KB (5,935 words) - 21:42, 18 July 2024
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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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