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unusual facts about Severn-class lifeboat


Severn-class lifeboat

It so impressed the crew at Falmouth that they pressed the RNLI to station it there until their own boat was built, and so it was stationed there from January 1997 until December 2001 when it was replaced by Richard Scott Cox.


1772 in Great Britain

21 September - Birmingham Canal Navigations main line open for traffic, linking Birmingham to the River Severn via the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal.

A48 road

From Gloucester, the A48 runs through the villages of Minsterworth, Westbury-on-Severn, connects to a link road to Cinderford in the Forest of Dean then through Newnham, Blakeney and bypassing the town of Lydney (the bypass was built in the 1990s) on the west bank of the River Severn.

Albert Edward

Albert Edward Bridge, railway bridge spanning the River Severn at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, England

Arley

The village of Upper Arley in Worcestershire, England, which has a station called Arley railway station on the Severn Valley Railway.

Arwystli

Hubert Hall suggests that it was one of the cantrefs of the obscure region once known as Cynllibiwg, located "between Severn and Wye", mentioned in the Red Book of the Exchequer.

Boann

The poem equates her with famous rivers in other countries, including the Severn, Tiber, Jordan, Tigris and Euphrates.

Bristol and South Wales Union Railway

Isambard Kingdom Brunel surveyed a route across the Severn and the ferry at New Passage was purchased, but the line failed to raise enough money so was not built.

New Passage opened with the line on 8 September 1863 and closed when the Severn Tunnel opened on 1 December 1886.

Canal ring

Thames and Severn Canal, Stroudwater Navigation, Gloucester and Sharpness Canal, River Severn, River Avon, Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, Grand Union Canal, Oxford Canal, River Thames This ring is only possible when the Thames and Severn Canal and the Stroudwater Navigation are fully restored.

Congresbury Yeo

Close to the mouth on the Severn Estuary on land owned by Environment Agency and leased by the Avon Wildlife Trust are Blake's Pools which were dug between 1983 and 1987 to attract wildlife.

Dimorphodon

One of these had been recovered from early Jurassic strata at the south bank of the Severn river, at the Aust Cliff.

Don Charlwood

Here the course was split, with Charlwood and half of them posted to No. 3 Advanced Flying Unit, Bobbington, between the Severn Valley and Birmingham.

Doud Eisenhower

After he and his family relocated to Fort Meade in Severn, Maryland, his mother hired a sixteen-year-old servant girl who had been recovering from scarlet fever.

E-class lifeboat

There are currently four E class boats in use on the Thames, split between Chiswick Lifeboat Station to the west of central London, and Tower Lifeboat Station at Victoria Embankment in central London.

Elystan Glodrydd

Very little is known about Elystan himself, but his descendants, including Cadwallon ap Madog, ruled a minor principality in mid Wales, part of Rhwng Gwy a Hafren - the land between the Wye and the Severn.

Frampton-on-Severn

Much of the village forms part of the Frampton Court Estate, owned by the Clifford family, which is centred on the two principal houses set either side of the Green: Frampton Court, a Palladian house of the early 1730s often attributed to the Bristol architect, John Strahan, and Manor Farmhouse, of the mid-15th century with a contemporary barn.

Fred Brocklander

Brocklander died in Severn, Maryland, on August 13, 2009, at age 69 following a stroke.

Geography of Somerset

Much of the "bowls`" low lying land has been sculptured by wave action, a result of the unusually large tidal flow of the north coastal water (the Bristol Channel), and its neighbouring county of Gloucestershire's tidal river, the Severn.

Gloucester Harbour Trustees

The Gloucester Harbour Trustees are the Competent Harbour Authority (CHA) for the tidal part of the River Severn from the Gloucester weirs (Llanthony & Maisemore) down to just below the Second Severn Crossing, on the Welsh side of the Severn Estuary (north of Denny Island) from the Second Severn Crossing as far as Goldcliff, and on the River Wye up to its tidal limit (Bigsweir).

Hawford

It is bisected by the River Salwarpe, the Droitwich - Worcester Canal and is also bounded by the River Severn.

Humber-class monitor

Severn and Mersey's guns soon wore out, and they were each re-armed with a single 6" Mk VII gun stripped from the wreck of HMS Montagu, a battleship which had been wrecked on the Isle of Lundy in 1906.

Interceptor Micros

Other in-house developers included Andrew Severn (last spotted as producer of Gun for Nethersoft), Martin (Jabba) Servern (last spotted working for Pumpkin Studios), Gary Biasillo, Steve Briggs, Chris Johnson (last seen working for SEGA in San Francisco), Mike Brown, Paul Griffiths, Robin Chapman and Colin Swinbourne (last spotted at Nice Tech).

Joseph Severn

While in Rome during the winter of 1820-21, Severn wrote numerous letters about Keats to their mutual friends in England, in particular William Haslam and Charles Armitage Brown, who then shared them with other members of the Keats circle, including the poet's fiancée, Fanny Brawne.

Leadon

River Leadon, a river in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, England, a tributary of the River Severn.

Leominster Canal

Nine years later, they again approached Hodgkinson, and this time he suggested that they should abandon the authorised route to Stourport and extend the canal on a new alignment to the River Severn at Worcester.

Little Avon

Little Avon River, a river in Gloucestershire, England flowing into the River Severn.

Lydney railway station

Lydney Junction (Severn and Wye) was used as a through-station for passenger services to and from Berkeley Road railway station and over the Severn Railway Bridge.

Oji-Cree

The Oji-Cree, Anishinini (plural Anishininiwag) or, less correctly, Severn Ojibwa or Northern Ojibwa, are a First Nation in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, residing in a narrow band extending from the Missinaibi River region in Northeastern Ontario at the east to Lake Winnipeg at the west.

OJS

ISO 639 language designation for the Oji-Cree language, also known as the Severn Ojibwa language or Anishininiimowin (Anishinini language)

Over, Gloucestershire

The River Leadon joins the River Severn just to the north of the village.

Publius Ostorius Scapula

He apparently (based on an emendation of a corrupt passage in Tacitus's Annals) declared his intention to disarm all the Britons south and east of the rivers Trent and Severn.

Redfield, Bristol

The nearby Lawrence Hill railway station serves the Redfield population and provides an easy access point to the Severn Beach Line running from Bristol Temple Meads railway station out to Severn Beach, the line has been listed among Thomas Cook's most favoured attractions for its scenic route along the River Avon and River Severn.

River Camlad

It turns north-west into Wales (for the second time) to join the River Severn to the west of Forden.

Saunders Severn

Severn was the last flying boat designed by S.E. Saunders Ltd before the take-over by A.V. Roe and John Lord late in 1928 that produced the Saunders-Roe, or "Saro", company.

Severn Lamb

Severn Lamb also built the 52 electrically powered platforms that providing the moving stage that encircled the perimeter of the arena for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Severn School

Severn has received praise for their nationally acclaimed sailing team, which held the title of the number one high school sailing team in the nation in 2008, coached that year by Thomas Sitzmann and now by Scott Steele, 1984 Olympic Silver Medalist in sailboarding.

Severn Valley Country Park

Across the bridalway bridge over the Severn is the Country Park Halt on the Severn Valley Railway.

Severn, Ontario

Glenn Howard - Curler for Team Ontario, 2007 Brier Winner, and 2007 World Curling Champion for Team Canada

Shipham

The village has a panorama over Weston-super-Mare and the Bristol Channel which is mentioned in The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: But the loveliness of the weather did not fail, and the whole day was set in Severn landscapes. They first saw the great river like a sea with the Welsh mountains hanging in the sky behind as they came over the Mendip crest above Shipham.

Tees-Exe line

Similar lines are commonly drawn, for similar purposes, between the Severn Estuary and the Wash, and between the Severn and the mouth of the River Trent.

The Fall of Hyperion

Severn, accompanied by Gladstone's aide Leigh Hunt, farcast to Tau Ceti Center, but instead arrive on a world that is an apparent analog of 19th century Earth and, in particular, the city of Rome, where the historical Keats died.

USS X-1

Towed to Annapolis, Maryland, in December 1960, X-1 was reactivated and attached to Submarine Squadron 6 and based at the Small Craft Facility of the Severn River Command for experimental duties in Chesapeake Bay.

Westbury-on-Severn

The village is served by three regular bus services, operated by Stagecoach: the 30 and 31 services between Coleford in the Forest of Dean and Gloucester and by the 23 service between Lydney and Gloucester.

Wynndel Property Management

The Severn Quay development includes the transformation of the town's neglected riverbank by creating landscaped gardens, a promenade and lookout deck over the River Wye.


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