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Longhope railway station is a disused stone-built railway station that served the village of Longhope in Gloucestershire, England. Opened in 1855 with the line, it was located on the Great Western Railway line linking Ross-on-Wye and Gloucester. Longhope station was used in season to export locally produced jam and fruit.
RNLB Thomas McCunn (ON 759) is a 45ft 6in Watson-class [1] lifeboat stationed at Longhope in Orkney, Scotland, [2] from January 1933 until April 1962. During which time she was launched on service 101 times and saved 308 lives. [1]
The station had a passing loop [4] on what was a single track. The station has been demolished but the waiting room still remains. A cameo description of life in Longhope before World War I is given in a memoir by Arthur Bullock. He fondly recalled, 'I could hardly have chosen a better village to be born in than Longhope'.
A lifeboat station was built at Brims on Hoy and the lifeboat was first launched on 25 September 1874. [1] It was always known as 'Longhope' after the larger town on the adjacent island of South Walls. It was replaced in 1906 by a new station with a slipway at Brims. The boathouse was modified in 1990 when new crew facilities were installed in ...
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 on display. On 17 March 1969 the station suffered one of the worst tragedies in British lifeboat history when its 47-ft wooden lifeboat, T.G.B., capsized with the loss of all eight crew after answering a mayday call from the Liberian cargo vessel ...
Longhope Lifeboat Museum is a museum at Brims on the island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. [1] The museum's main exhibit is the former lifeboat Thomas McCunn , the lifeboat that served the islands of Hoy and South Walls between 1933 and 1962.
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Brims is a village at the southern point of the island of Hoy, in Orkney, Scotland.The settlement is within the parish of Walls and Flotta. [1] The RNLI lifeboat Thomas McCunn is on display at the Longhope Lifeboat Museum in Brims, which was the Longhope Lifeboat Station until 1999.