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[?].
... January 20 - Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, Russian chemist and inventor of the Periodic table
May 19 - Auguste Molinier, French historian
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