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  2. Tank Overhaul - Wikipedia

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    Tank Overhaul is a Canadian documentary television program broadcast on the Military Channel (now American Heroes Channel) starting in 2007.Episodes are filmed at the Isle of Wight Military Museum as well as other organizations specializing in military history vehicle restoration and preservation.

  3. List of Royal Navy shore establishments - Wikipedia

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    HMS Manatee, Landing craft, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; HMS Marlborough, Electrical training school, Eastbourne [29] HMS Mastodon, Landing craft, Exbury House, Hampshire; HMS Mauritius, Mauritius; HMS Martelo, HQ Naval Officer-in-Charge, Lowestoft, (1 October 1945 – April 1946) HMS Medina, Landing craft and Fleet Air Arm, Puckpool, Ryde, Isle of ...

  4. List of Isle of Wight Steam Railway locomotives and rolling stock

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    In 1980, it was brought for a price of £2 by a private owner and was given to the Isle of Wight Council who cosmetically restored it. It went to the Cothy Bottom Heritage Centre, Newport Quay and the Isle of Wight Bus Museum before being put away out of the public view. In 2018, ownership was transferred to the Isle of Wight Steam Railway (IOWSR).

  5. Isle of Wight - Wikipedia

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    On the Isle of Wight neolithic occupation is attested to by flint tool finds, pottery and monuments. The Isle of Wight's neolithic communities were agriculturalists, farming livestock and crops. The Isle of Wight's most recognisable neolithic site is the Longstone at Mottistone, the remains of an early Neolithic long barrow. Initially ...

  6. Operation Pluto - Wikipedia

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    One was established at Sandown on the Isle of Wight, and another at Dungeness on the Kent coast. Construction was carried out at night and in secret, and equipment was carried in under tarpaulins. The pumping stations and storage tanks were camouflaged to look like villas, seaside cottages, old forts, amusement parks and other innocuous features.

  7. LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-2T - Wikipedia

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    The LMS had various elderly tank engines and the operating department required a new small class 2 locomotive to replace them. Noting that the Great Western Railway 4500 and 4575 Classes of 2-6-2T ('Prairie') had been successful, George Ivatt designed the new engine type incorporating self-emptying ashpans and rocking grates which were labour-saving devices.

  8. RAF Ventnor - Wikipedia

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    Royal Air Force Ventnor or more simply RAF Ventnor is a former Royal Air Force radar station located 0.7 miles (1.1 km) north east of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, England. [2] It was initially constructed in 1937 as part of a World War II coastal defence programme codenamed Chain Home .

  9. LB&SCR E1 class - Wikipedia

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    Eight examples were also rebuilt as 0-6-2 radial tank engines for use in the west of England. These were classified as E1/R. Four E1s were also transferred for duties on the Isle of Wight: three were shipped from Southampton on 4 July 1932 and a fourth on 16 June 1933. [6]