Longhope Lifeboat Thomas McCunn ON 759
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Longhope Lifeboat Thomas McCunn ON 759 lifeboat stationed at in , Scotland,OS Explorer Map: Orkney - Hoy, South Walls & Flotta: Published: Ordnance Survey: from January 1933 until April 1962. During which time she was launched on service 101 times and saved 308 lives. After ''Thomas McCunn'' left Longhope she was placed into the reserve fleet for ten years before being sold and used as a pleasure boat. In 2000 she was bought by Longhope Lifeboat Museum. The lifeboat is now at the centre of a display in the old slipway at
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