Official Number ON 770 Launched 1934 | Station Cromer No2 Station Draft 1.35 m | |
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Owner Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Builder Groves and Guttridge Ltd, Isle of Wight. Donor £3,750 Legacy of Mr William Edward Dixon, Worthing, West Sussex. | ||
RNLB Harriot Dixon (ON 770) is a retired Liverpool-class lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, that was stationed at Cromer in the county of Norfolk in 1934, She was the number 2 lifeboat and was stationed at the old lifeboat house on Cromer beach. During the thirty years that she was the No 2 lifeboat at Cromer she was launched 55 times and was responsible for saving the lives of 20 people. Dixon road in the southern suburb of Cromer is named after the Lifeboat.
History
The Liverpool-class motor lifeboat Harriot Dixon was built by Groves and Guttridge Ltd, on the Isle of Wight. She took up station at the beach lifeboat house on 2 August 1934 and remained at station as the No 2 lifeboat for thirty years until 15 June 1964. This lifeboat had been funded from a legacy of £3,750 left by William Edward Dixon, a surgeon, of West Worthing of the then county of Sussex (Now West Sussex). Mr Dixon had died in 1921 and had left the money to fund a lifeboat to be named after his mother and if possible to be stationed on the Kentish or east coast. Harriot Dixon went on to be the longest serving motor lifeboat at Cromer.