• Thumbnail for RNLB The Oddfellows (B-818)
    RNLB The Oddfellows (B-818) is the current rigid-inflatable inshore lifeboat on station at the English coastal town of Sheringham in the county of Norfolk...
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  • RNLB Lloyds II (ON 986) RNLB Ruby and Arthur Reed (ON 990) RNLB The Oddfellows (B-818) RNLB Cecil Paine (ON 850) RNLB Manchester Unity of Oddfellows (B-702)...
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  • RNLB Manchester Unity of Oddfellows (B-702) was an Atlantic 75-class lifeboat rigid-inflatable inshore lifeboat on station at the English coastal town...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Manchester Unity of Oddfellows (ON 960)
    The Manchester Unity of Oddfellows (RNLI Official Number 960) was an Oakley-class lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) stationed...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Duncan
    RNLB Duncan was the first RNLI lifeboat placed on station in the English coastal town of Sheringham in the county of Norfolk, United Kingdom. The arrival...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB William Bennett (ON 11)
    RNLB William Bennett (ON 11) was the second RNLI lifeboat to be stationed at the English seaside town of Sheringham in the county of Norfolk. She served...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Lloyds II (ON 986)
    RNLB Lloyds II (ON 986) was an Oakley-class lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) stationed at Sheringham in the English county of...
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  • Thumbnail for 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster
    The Caister lifeboat disaster of 13 November 1901 occurred off the coast of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, England. It took place during what became known as...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Cecil Paine (ON 850)
    RNLB Cecil Paine (ON 850) is a retired Liverpool-class non-self-righting lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. It was the second motor lifeboat...
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  • RNLB H F Bailey II (ON 714) was the third lifeboat stationed at Cromer to bear this name, but the first of the four to bear a number in its name. This...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Benjamin Bond Cabbell II (ON 12)
    RNLB Benjamin Bond Cabbell II (ON 12) was a Cromer non self-righter type lifeboat stationed at Cromer Lifeboat Station in the English county of Norfolk...
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    Henry Blogg (category EngvarB from July 2016)
    is referred to as "the greatest of the lifeboatmen". From the rescue of the crew of the Pyrin and then of half of the crew of the Fernebo in 1917, through...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Lester (ON 1287)
    RNLB Lester (ON 1287) is the all-weather lifeboat (ALB) stationed at Cromer in the English county of Norfolk. Cromer was the first lifeboat station on...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Ruby and Arthur Reed (ON 990)
    stood by through the night until the boat's engines were once again working. RNLB Ruby and Arthur Reed (ON 990). A photograph of the lifeboat taken during...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Louisa Heartwell (ON 495)
    RNLB Louisa Heartwell (ON 495) was the sixth lifeboat to be stationed at Cromer on the coast of the English county of Norfolk She was launched from the...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB H F Bailey (ON 694)
    RNLB H F Bailey (ON 694) was the second lifeboat at Cromer in the county of Norfolk to bear the name of H F Bailey. She replaced H F Bailey (ON 670) which...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Henry Blogg (ON 840)
    RNLB Henry Blogg (ON 840) was the eighteenth lifeboat to be stationed at Cromer in the county of Norfolk. ON 840 was stationed at Cromer from 1945 until...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB H F Bailey (ON 670)
    RNLB H F Bailey (ON 670) was the first Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat powered by a motor, that served from Cromer Lifeboat Station...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Foresters Centenary (ON 786)
    RNLB Foresters Centenary (ON 786) is a retired Liverpool-class lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), stationed in the English coastal...
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  • Thumbnail for Cromer Lifeboat Station
    Suffolk RNLB Lester The Cromer Mersey-class Lifeboat "Her Majesty the Queen" (ON1189, temporarily on station during boathouse rebuilding) on the beach at...
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  • Stuart "Captain Calamity" Hill (category EngvarB from September 2014)
    later moved to the Shetland Islands where he took to protesting around constitutional matters. In 2008 he made claims relating to the formation of a micronation...
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  • Thumbnail for Wells-next-the-Sea Lifeboat Station
    service in the town. A boathouse was constructed on the Wells quay to accommodate a self-righting RNLI lifeboat, the RNLB Eliza Adams. The station officially...
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    Happisburgh (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is on the coast, to the east of a north–south road, the B1159 from Bacton on the coast to Stalham...
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  • James Haylett (category People from the Borough of Great Yarmouth)
    (1825–1907) was one of the most famous lifeboatmen of his age. Decorated by King Edward VII with the RNLI gold medal for his efforts in the 1901 Caister lifeboat...
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  • Thumbnail for Sheringham Lifeboat Station
    and slipway had been constructed at the Old Hythe. The old boathouse (The Oddfellows Hall) on Lifeboat Plain was then given over to several uses, eventually...
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  • Thumbnail for Augusta (lifeboat)
    The Augusta was a private lifeboat which was stationed in the town of Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk She was launched on 14 November 1838...
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  • SS Hopelyn (category Merchant ships of the United Kingdom)
    from Newcastle that became stranded and then wrecked on Scroby Sands of the Norfolk coast on 17 October 1922. Hopelyn was a merchant steamship which...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB H F Bailey (ON 777)
    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...
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    Henry Thomas Davies (category EngvarB from July 2016)
    to aid the stricken ship. By 11.35 am the lifeboat had reached the site, the Hammond Knoll sandbank. The gale was at full force and three of the English...
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    SS Georgia (1908) (category Merchant ships of the Netherlands)
    Georgia was an oil tanker that was built in the United States in 1908 as Texas and spent most of her career in the United States Merchant Marine. In 1917 she...
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