RNLB H F Bailey (ON 694)

H.F. Bailey ON694 service to the Monte Nevoso
History
Owner: Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
Builder: J. Samuel White at Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
Official Number: ON 694
Donor: Legacy of Henry Francis Bailey, Brockenhurst, Surrey.
Station Cromer
Laid down: 1924
Fate: She left Cromer in 1935 and was renamed the J.B. Proudfoot and served in the reserve fleet
General characteristics
Type: Watson class
Length: 45 ft 0 in (13.72 m) overall
Beam: 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Installed power: single Weyburn petrol engine of 80 bhp (60 kW)

RNLB H F Bailey (ON 694) was the second lifeboat at Cromer in the county of Norfolk[1] 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.

Description

The lifeboat was built by J. Samuel Whites at Cowes in the Isle of Wight in 1923.[2] 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,[2] a London merchant who was born in Norfolk and died in 1916.

Service and rescues

As H F Bailey (ON 694)
Date Casualty Lives saved
1924
September 22Auxiliary fishing cutter Iona of Middlesbrough, landed 4 from Haisborough light vessel4
October 22Steamship Clansman of Lowestoft9
December 5Steamship Vojvoda Putnik of Split, assisted to save vessel41
December 27Smith Knoll light vessel, rendered assistance
1925
April 19 Steam drifter Couronne of Lowestoft 8
June 12 Steamship Equity of Goole, rendered assistance
October 14 Barge Scotia of London, assisted to save vessel3
1927
July 9 Steam Trawler ANSON of Grimsby, saved trawler9
November 21–22 Steam tankerGEORGIA of Rotterdam15
1928
January 25 Ketch HARROLD of London, assisted to save vessel3
1929
June 28 River steamship EMPRESS of Nottingham 3
October 30 Four masted schooner SVENBERG of Vardo, stood by vessel
November 22 Motor yacht CELIA of Bridlington, Landed 2
1930
October 21Steam drifter GIRL EVELYN of Fraserburgh, assisted to save vessel
1931
February 17Fishing boat WELCOME HOME of Sheringham, saved1
October 4 Steam trawler LE VIEUX TIGRE of Boulogne-sur-Mer, rendered assistance
November 20–22Steamship Zembra of Dunkirk, saved vessel
December 24Steamship VIKVALL of Oskarshamn, rendered assistance
1932
August 7Motor trawler IVERNA of Galway, rendered assistance
September 3Motor barge OLIVE MAY of London, rendered assistance
October 11Steam drifter ALEXANDRINE of Boulogne-sur-Mer, stood by vessel and gave help
October 14–16Steamship MONTE NEVOSO of Genoa, saved29 plus one dog
October 14–16Steam tug NOORDZEE of Rotterdam, saved from MONTE NEVOSO1
November 28Barge MATILDA UPTON of Ipswich, assisted to save vessel3
1933
March 1Steamship MARY KINGSLEY of London, rendered assistance
November 20Motor barge GOLDCROWN of London, rendered assistance
December 13Barge SEPOY of Dover, saved2
1934
November 24Motor barge RIAN of Groningen, rendered assistance
1935
February 13Steamship CAMPUS of Cardiff, assisted to save vessel29
May 31Three masted schooner SIX SISTERS of Hull, rendered assistance
As reserve lifeboat J B Proudfoot (ON694)
1940
June 16Steamship BRIKA of Swansea, assisted to save vessel

References

  1. ↑ The Cromer Lifeboats, by Bob Malster & Peter Stibbons,:Poppyland Publishing, ISBN 0-946148-21-X
  2. 1 2 Cromer Lifeboats 1804–2004, ISBN 0-7524-3197-8
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