Official Number ON 694 Laid down 1924 | Station Cromer | |
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Owner Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Builder J. Samuel White at Cowes on the Isle of Wight. Donor Legacy of Henry Francis Bailey, Brockenhurst, Surrey. | ||
RNLB H F Bailey (ON 694) was the second lifeboat at Cromer in the county of Norfolk to bear the name of H F Bailey. She replaced H F Bailey (ON 670) which had been stationed at Cromer until 1924. In 1936 she became the station's reserve lifeboat and was renamed J B Proudfoot.
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Description
The lifeboat was built by J. Samuel Whites at Cowes in the Isle of Wight in 1923. She was a Watson-class lifeboat and had a length of 45 feet (14 m) and breadth of 12 feet 6 inches (3.81 m). She was powered by a single Weyburn 80hp petrol engine.
Donor
The Cromer station had four motor-powered lifeboats all called H F Bailey after the donor, Henry Francis Bailey of Brockenhurst, a London merchant who was born in Norfolk and died in 1916.
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