Cromer Lifeboat H F Bailey ON 694

= H.F. Bailey ON694 service to the Monte Nevoso
Career
Owner:	Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
Builder:	J. Samuel White at Cowes on the Isle of White.
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:	petrol engine of 80 bhp (60 kW)

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 White in 1923^[2]. She was a 'Watson' class boat 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 80 Horse powered petrol engine.

Donor

The Cromer station had four motor-powered lifeboats all called H F Bailey after the donor, a Mr 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 22	Auxiliary fishing cutter Iona of Middlesbrough, landed 4 from Haisborough light vessel	4
October 22	Steamship Clansman of Lowestoft	9
December 5	Steamship Vojvoda Putnik of Split, assisted to save vessel	41
December 27	Smith 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 vessel	3
1927
July 9	Steam Trawler ANSON of Grimsby, saved trawler	9
November 21–22	Steam tankerGEORGIA of Rotterdam	15
1928
January 25	Ketch HARROLD of London, assisted to save vessel	3
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 21	Steam drifter GIRL EVELYN of Fraserburgh, assisted to save vessel
1931
February 17	Fishing boat WELCOME HOME of Sheringham, saved	1
October 4	Steam trawler LE VIEUX TIGRE of Boulogne-sur-Mer, rendered assistance
November 20–22	Steamship Zembra of Dunkirk, saved vessel
December 24	Steamship VIKVALL of Oskarshamn, rendered assistance
1932
August 7	Motor trawler IVERNA of Galway, rendered assistance
September 3	Motor barge OLIVE MAY of London, rendered assistance
October 11	Steam drifter ALEXANDRINE of Boulogne-sur-Mer, stood by vessel and gave help
October 14–16	Steamship MONTE NEVOSO of Genoa, saved	29 plus one dog
October 14–16	Steam tug NOORDZEE of Rotterdam, saved from MONTE NEVOSO	1
November 28	Barge MATILDA UPTON of Ipswich, assisted to save vessel	3
1933
March 1	Steamship MARY KINGSLEY of London, rendered assistance
November 20	Motor barge GOLDCROWN of London, rendered assistance
December 13	Barge SEPOY of Dover, saved	2
1934
November 24	Motor barge RIAN of Groningen, rendered assistance
1935
February 13	Steamship CAMPUS of Cardiff, assisted to save vessel	29
May 31	Three masted schooner SIX SISTERS of Hull, rendered assistance
As reserve lifeboat J B Proudfoot (ON694)
1940
June 16	Steamship BRIKA of Swansea, assisted to save vessel

References

1. ^ The Cromer Lifeboats, by Bob Malster & Peter Stibbons,:Poppyland Publishing, ISBN 0 946 148 21 X
2. ^ ^{a b} Cromer Lifeboats 1804–2004, ISBN 0752431978