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| Owner | Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) |
| Builder | Groves and Guttridge Ltd, Isle of Wight |
| Official Number: | ON 777 |
| Donor: | Legacy of Henry Francis Bailey, Brockenhurst, Hampshire |
| Station | Cromer |
| Cost | £7,307 14s 0d |
| Christened | 27 August 1937 |
| In service | 1935 |
| Fate | On display at the Henry Blogg Museum in Cromer |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Watson Cabin motor |
| Tonnage | 18.78 gross tonnage |
| Length | 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) overall |
| Draught | 9 ft 5 in (2.87 m) |
| Installed power | Two Weyburn CE4 four-cylinder Diesel engines of 40 BHP (30 kW) |
| Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h) |
| Complement | 12 crew plus 95 rescues |
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 was on station for the ten years between 1935 and 1945.[1] She is now part of the National Historic Fleet[2] and has been preserved in the RNLI Henry Blogg Museum in Cromer.[3]
From 1923 to the end of the Second World War in 1945 the Cromer station had four motor-powered lifeboats all called H F Bailey after the donor, Mr Henry Francis Bailey, a London merchant who had been born in Norfolk and had died in 1916.[4]
- ^ Cromer Lifeboats 1804–2004, Appendix 1 Lifeboat Summary.
- ^ "H F Bailey (1446)". nationalhistoricships.org.uk. Archived from the original on 26 January 2008.
- ^ "Cromer Lifeboats - Museum". www.cromerlifeboats.org.uk. Archived from the original on 10 February 2007.
- ^ Cromer Lifeboats 1804–2004, page 54.