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About the Dataset
The Timaru Lifeboat AI Historian draws on a curated dataset of historical newspaper records, rescue reports, and maritime events relating to the lifeboat service, Rocket Brigade, shipwrecks, and port activities between the 1840s and 1890s. The system searches a structured archive of extracted entries to provide historical summaries with inline Record ID citations. The AI operates strictly within this dataset — it does not search external sources.