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RNLI on Twitter: "#OnThisDay 40 years ago, @Lifeboat1413 were called to the Mi Amigo, home of the pirate station @TheRadCaroline, which had run aground on a sandbank off the Essex coast. https://t.co/qv16VT9eOR" /
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