Convoy FS 559 was a British convoy in

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. On the night of 5 August 1941, six merchant ships from the convoy ran aground on the

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. The

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lifeboat ''H.F. Bailey'' was the first to arrive, and rescued 16 men from the SS ''Oxshott'' of London, 31 from the of Rouen, 19 from the SS ''Deerwood'' of London and 22 from the SS ''Betty Hindley''. The Cromer second lifeboat ''Harriot Dixon'' and the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat ''Louise Stephens'' between them rescued a further 31 men.

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