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286:, London, and a launch-carriage cost a further £98-10s-0d. Transported to Stromness free of charge by the 'Aberdeen Steam Navigation company', and 'Edinburgh, Leith and Clyde Shipping company'. The boat arrived in Stromness in the summer of 1867. The lifeboat was provided out of a gift from
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started construction of a replacement boathouse and roller-slipway in 1925, on the site of the previous boathouse. Costing £10,660, it was completed in 1926. However, when a new lifeboat was due for
Stromness two years later, it was proposed that they receive a 60-foot
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367:Stromness 1926 Boathouse and slipway
16:Lifeboat station in Orkney, Scotland
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192:Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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562:Robert Craigie, crew member - 1992
559:William Wilson, crew member - 1992
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829:List of former RNLI stations
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244:All-weather lifeboat, 17-16
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70:Stromness, Orkney, Scotland
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400:Papa Stour
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818:See also
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398:, near
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