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RNLB ''H F Bailey'' (ON 670) was the first
To accommodate this new motor lifeboat a new lifeboat house and slipway were built on the end of the Cromer Pier.Cromer Lifeboat, Apictorial history, By Nicholas Leach & Paul Russell, Pub; Landmark Collector’s Library, The planning and building of this new boathouse was carried out three years before the arrival of ''H F Bailey'' and was ready on the day that the new lifeboat arrived in the town. The new house was long and wide. The house had a solid concrete floor. The placing of this house at the end of the towns pier allowed the new lifeboat to be launched at all states and conditions of the tide, and with the pier itself from the shore line plus the of the boathouse and a further of slipway meant that the lifeboat when launched would be well clear of the rocks and groynes along Cromer's beach front. The new lifeboat house cost £32,000. This boathouse remained in constant use until 1995 finally being replaced with a new station in 1999. The 1923 station now resides at Southwold.
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
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(RNLI) lifeboat
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Rescue vessels
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* Lifeboat (rescue), a boat designed for sea rescues
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powered by a motor, that served from Cromer Lifeboat Station
Cromer Lifeboat Station is an RNLI station located in the town of Cromer in the English county of Norfolk. The station operates two lifeboats - one for inshore work and the other for offshore work.
The current lifeboat station on the end of C ...
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Description
The lifeboat was built in 1923 by J. Samuel White atCowes
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on the Isle of Wight
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. The lifeboat was powered by an 80 bhp Weyburn DE6 engine and was a Norfolk and Suffolk-class lifeboat
Norfolk and Suffolk-class lifeboats were lifeboats operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) from stations around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland. They were able to operate further from shore and around the sandbanks ...
. She was and long with a breadth of
Donor
The Cromer station had four motor-powered lifeboats all called ''H F Bailey'', after the donor, a Mr Henry Francis Bailey of Brockenhurst,''Cromer Lifeboats 1804–2004'', page 54. a London merchant who was born inNorfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
and had died in 1916.
New boathouse
To accommodate this new motor lifeboat a new lifeboat house and slipway were built on the end of the Cromer Pier.Cromer Lifeboat, Apictorial history, By Nicholas Leach & Paul Russell, Pub; Landmark Collector’s Library, The planning and building of this new boathouse was carried out three years before the arrival of ''H F Bailey'' and was ready on the day that the new lifeboat arrived in the town. The new house was long and wide. The house had a solid concrete floor. The placing of this house at the end of the towns pier allowed the new lifeboat to be launched at all states and conditions of the tide, and with the pier itself from the shore line plus the of the boathouse and a further of slipway meant that the lifeboat when launched would be well clear of the rocks and groynes along Cromer's beach front. The new lifeboat house cost £32,000. This boathouse remained in constant use until 1995 finally being replaced with a new station in 1999. The 1923 station now resides at Southwold.
Service and rescues
''H F Bailey'' (ON 670) was the Cromer No. 1 boat on station for just one year but due to problems with her launch and recovery, on the slipway, she was transferred to Great Yarmouth & Gorleston on 5 May 1924, where she served until 1939See also
*Cromer Lifeboat H F Bailey ON 694
RNLB ''H F Bailey'' (ON 694) was the second lifeboat at Cromer in the county of NorfolkThe Cromer Lifeboats, by Bob Malster & Peter Stibbons,:Poppyland Publishing, to bear the name of H F Bailey. She replaced ''H F Bailey'' (ON 670) which had ...
*Cromer Lifeboat H F Bailey III
RNLB ''H F Bailey'' (ON 777) is the most famous Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat to have served from Cromer, because she was used by Coxswain Henry Blogg to perform many of his most famous lifesaving exploits. The lifeboat wa ...
References
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Year 670 (Roman numerals, DCLXX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 670th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 670th year of the 1s ...