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Royal Air Force Marine Branch

Index Royal Air Force Marine Branch

The Marine Branch (1918-1986) was a branch of the Royal Air Force (RAF) which operated watercraft in support of RAF operations. [1]

24 relations: Air-sea rescue, Bird-class patrol vessel, Crash rescue boat, D-Day naval deceptions, D. Napier & Son, Fairmile D motor torpedo boat, HMS Bridlington (J65), HMS Redpole (P259), Lewis gun, Lismore, Scotland, List of ships of the United States Air Force, List of shipwrecks in July 1940, Loss of MV Darlwyne, Napier Lion, RAF Jurby, RAF Mount Batten, RAF Search and Rescue Force, Ramsey Grammar School, Royal Air Force Ensign, Seenotdienst, T. E. Lawrence, Timeline of the Royal Air Force, Type Two 63 ft HSL, Vincent lifeboat engine.

Air-sea rescue

Air-sea rescue (ASR or A/SR, also known as sea-air rescue) is the coordinated search and rescue (SAR) of the survivors of emergency water landings as well as people who have survived the loss of their seagoing vessel.

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Bird-class patrol vessel

The Bird-class patrol vessel was a class of large patrol boat built for the Royal Navy.

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Crash rescue boat

Crash Rescue Boat is a name used in the USA to describe military high-speed offshore rescue boats, similar in size and performance to Motor Torpedo Boats, used to rescue pilots and aircrews of crashed aircraft.

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D-Day naval deceptions

Operations Taxable, Glimmer and Big Drum were tactical military deceptions conducted on 6 June 1944 in support of the Allied landings in Normandy.

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D. Napier & Son

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Fairmile D motor torpedo boat

The Fairmile D motor torpedo boat was a type of British Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) designed by Bill Holt and conceived by Fairmile Marine for the Royal Navy.

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HMS Bridlington (J65)

HMS Bridlington was a British.

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HMS Redpole (P259)

HMS Redpole (P259) was built in 1970 by Fairmile Marine at Berwick-upon-Tweed as RAFV Sea Otter, the third Seal class Long Range Recovery and Support Craft of the Royal Air Force Marine Branch.

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Lewis gun

The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War-era light machine gun of US design that was perfected and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, and widely used by British and British Empire troops during the war.

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Lismore, Scotland

Lismore (Lios Mòr, possibly meaning "great enclosure", or "garden") is an island of some in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

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List of ships of the United States Air Force

Starting in 1957 the US Air Force began operating a small fleet of Missile Range Instrumentation Ships to support missile test ranges.

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List of shipwrecks in July 1940

The list of shipwrecks in 1940 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1940.

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Loss of MV Darlwyne

MV (motor vessel) Darlwyne was an unlicensed pleasure cruiser, a converted Royal Navy picket boat, which disappeared off the Cornish coast on 31 July 1966 with its complement of thirty-one (two crew and twenty-nine passengers including eight children).

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Napier Lion

The Napier Lion was a 12-cylinder 'broad arrow' W12 configuration aircraft engine built by D. Napier & Son from 1917 until the 1930s.

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RAF Jurby

Royal Air Force Jurby or more simply RAF Jurby is a former Royal Air Force station built in the north west of the Isle of Man.

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RAF Mount Batten

RAF Mount Batten was a Royal Air Force station and flying boat base at Mount Batten, a peninsula in Plymouth Sound, Devon, England.

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RAF Search and Rescue Force

The Royal Air Force Search and Rescue Force (SARF or SAR Force) was the Royal Air Force organisation which provided around-the-clock aeronautical search and rescue cover in the United Kingdom, Cyprus and the Falkland Islands.

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Ramsey Grammar School

Ramsey Grammar School is a coeducational comprehensive secondary school located in Ramsey, on the Isle of Man.

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Royal Air Force Ensign

The Royal Air Force Ensign is the official flag which is used to represent the British Royal Air Force.

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Seenotdienst

The Seenotdienst (sea rescue service) was a German military organization formed within the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) to save downed airmen from emergency water landings.

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T. E. Lawrence

Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer.

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Timeline of the Royal Air Force

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Type Two 63 ft HSL

The Type Two HSL was a high speed launch craft made by British Power Boat Company (BPBC).

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Vincent lifeboat engine

The Vincent lifeboat engine was a unique design of two-stroke petrol engine.

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RAF Marine Branch, RAF Marine Craft Section, RAF Rescue Launch, Royal Air Force Marine Craft Section.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force_Marine_Branch

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