Lightvessel No. 18, of Dowsing Station, was taken out of service in 1987 and served in 1999 as a radio station for Radio North Sea International, off Harwich, Essex as part of a fundraising drive for RLNI[?], the Royal National Lifeboat Institution[?].
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July 22 - Wilson Barrett, actor
August 22 - Kate Chopin, author
August 25 - Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
August 29 - Murat V, deposed Ottoman sultan
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