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  2. Fleetwood Enterprises - Wikipedia

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    Fleetwood RV's origins date back to 1950, when John C. Crean formed Coach Specialties Company in southern California, as a maker of window blinds for travel trailers. [2] Around 1953, Crean renamed the company to Fleetwood Trailer Company, a name inspired by the automotive bodies incorporated into various Cadillac lines of automobiles. [2]

  3. Sankey Photography Collection - Wikipedia

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    Many of the maritime photographs in the collection were taken from these steamers. The maritime albums include a large selection of the steam trawlers then sailing out of Fleetwood and the sailing trawlers which they displaced. Vickers called on Sankey to supplement their own photographers so most of the ships launched at Barrow are recorded.

  4. HMS Fleetwood (U47) - Wikipedia

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    HMS Fleetwood was a Grimsby-class sloop of the Royal Navy. Built at Devonport Dockyard in the 1930s, Fleetwood was launched in March 1936 and commissioned in November that year. She served in the Red Sea until the outbreak of the Second World War .

  5. 1953 in Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Fleetwood trawler Michael Griffiths sinks seven miles south of Barra Head with the loss of 13 crew. [1] 9 February – Fraserburgh life-boat John and Charles Kennedy capsizes on service: six crew killed. 5 March – PS Maid of the Loch, the last full-size paddle steamer built in the UK, is launched on the River Clyde at A. & J. Inglis's ...

  6. Fleetwood - Wikipedia

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    Fleetwood is a coastal town in the Borough of Wyre in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde.It had a population of 25,939 at the 2011 census.. Fleetwood acquired its modern character in the 1830s, when the principal landowner Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, High Sheriff and MP, conceived an ambitious plan to re-develop the town to make it a busy seaport and railway spur.

  7. Blackpool Heritage Trams - Wikipedia

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    The advert and sales stand were removed in 1984. 633 was later rebuilt as the illuminated Trawler in 2001 and renumbered 737 in 2008. [19] One Brush car, 631, was retained by Blackpool Transport for the heritage fleet and was restored to its 1950s condition, but retained some features of its 1990s rebuild. 631 re-entered service in May 2013.

  8. List of requisitioned trawlers of the Royal Navy (WWII)

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    Wrech dispersal vessel, sold 1950 HMT Maria Elizabeth: 1940: Minesweeper, Esso, returned 1945 HMT Maria R. Ommering: 1940: Minesweeper, returned Feb 1946 HMT Marie Elena: Aug 1940: Minesweeper, returned 1944 HMT Marie Louise: Aug 1940: Boom defence vessel, returned Jan 1946 HMT Marigold II: Aug 1939: Harbour service, returned 1945 HMT Maris ...

  9. List of shipwrecks in 1953 - Wikipedia

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    List of shipwrecks: 1 January 1953 Ship State Description Attu Island United States Carrying a cargo of 5,000 tons of cement and damaged earlier in her voyage when she struck a reef off Pennock Island in Southeast Alaska while under tow by the tug Hercules ( United States), the 328-foot (100.0 m) LST-type barge capsized and sank bottom-up 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km; 0.6 mi) south of Bar Harbor ...