Cromer Lifeboat H F Bailey III ON 777
H F Bailey III (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. She is now on the British National Register of Historic Ships and has been preserved in the RNLI Henry Blogg Lifeboat Museum in Cromer.
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 Brockenhurst, Norfolk and had died in 1916.
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