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2. Lightvessel stations of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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   Lightvessel stations of Great Britain. Light vessel 78 Calshot Spit on station in 1979. The history of the many lightvessel stations of Great Britain goes back over 250 years to the placement of the world's first lightship at the Nore in the early 18th century. A lightvessel station is a named position at which a lightvessel was placed, rather ...

3. Sevenstones Lightship - Wikipedia

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   Sevenstones. Sevenstones Lightship is a lightvessel station off the Seven Stones Reef which is nearly 15 miles (24 km) to the west-north-west (WNW) of Land's End, Cornwall, and 7 miles (11 km) east-north-east (ENE) of the Isles of Scilly. The reef has been a navigational hazard to shipping for centuries with seventy-one named wrecks and an ...

4. Arctic Corsair - Wikipedia

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   The Arctic Corsair is Hull’s last surviving sidewinder trawler, [2] a type of ship that formed the backbone of the city’s deep sea fishing fleet. She was built in 1960, at Cook, Welton & Gemmell in Beverley, and was the second diesel-engined trawler built for the Boyd Line, the first being the Arctic Cavalier which was launched the previous month. [1]

5. Lightship - Wikipedia

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   Breaksea Light Vessel following a refit at Swansea in 1978. David Avery and Robert Hamblin in 1731 placed the earliest British lightship at The Nore near the mouth of the River Thames . This was a private venture that operated profitably and without the need for government enforcement of payment for lighting services.

6. Lighting on radio tower reportedly failed days before ...

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   October 21, 2024 at 7:10 PM. Lighting on a Houston radio tower reportedly failed just days before it was hit by a helicopter on Sunday, killing four people in a fiery explosion that toppled the ...

7. Research stations in Antarctica - Wikipedia

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   The United States maintains the southernmost base, Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, and the largest base and research station in Antarctica, McMurdo Station. The second-southernmost base is the Chinese Kunlun Station at 80°25′2″S during the summer season, and the Russian Vostok Station at 78°27′50″S during the winter season. Name.