• 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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  • (ON 832) RNLB Forester’s Centenary (ON 786) RNLB Manchester Unity of Oddfellows (ON 960) RNLB J C Madge (ON 536) RNLB Alfred Corry (ON 353) RNLB Jesse Lumb...
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  • Thumbnail for 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster
    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 the "Great...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB J C Madge (ON 536)
    Lifeboat RNLB H F Bailey III (ON 777). After her retirement from service at Sheringham, Lifeboat J C Madge was replaced by the Foresters Centenary. The lifeboat...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Cecil Paine (ON 850)
    Cecil Paine, which was now running low on fuel, had to return to her station. RNLB Forester’s Centenary (ON 786) arrived at the scene to relive her. By...
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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Manchester Unity of Oddfellows (ON 960)
    in May 1992. During the time that The Manchester Unity of Oddfellows was on station at Sheringham, she performed 127 service launches, rescuing 134 lives...
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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 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 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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    Henry Blogg (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Blogg GC BEM (6 February 1876 – 13 June 1954) was a lifeboatman from Cromer on the north coast of Norfolk, England, and the most decorated in Royal National...
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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 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 Augusta (lifeboat)
    Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk She was launched on 14 November 1838 and stayed on station for 56 years until she was retired from service in...
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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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    Happisburgh (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    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. It is a nucleated...
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  • Thumbnail for Wells-next-the-Sea Lifeboat Station
    Wells-next-the-Sea Lifeboat Station (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    get out into the open sea and was overly reliant on the tide. In 1893, the lifeboat RNLB Baltic (ON 198) was launched for three rescues, but arrived too...
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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 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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  • Thumbnail for RNLB Harriot Dixon (ON 770)
    RNLB Harriot Dixon (ON 770) is a retired Liverpool-class lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, that was stationed at Cromer in Norfolk in...
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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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  • 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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    Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service (category Caister-on-Sea)
    Caister Volunteer Lifeboat Service, or Caister Lifeboat, is based at Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk, and operates one of only three offshore lifeboats in the UK...
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  • James Haylett (category People from Caister-on-Sea)
    law) and his grandson Harry Knights. Haylett was born in 1825 in Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, England, the son of Samuel Haylett (1791–1879) and Sarah Sheales...
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  • 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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  • England. He was formerly a metalworker. In 2001, aged 58, he left Suffolk on a sailing trip. Media reports used the "Captain Calamity" epithet when Hill...
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  • Thumbnail for Henry Thomas Davies
    Davies BEM (19 February 1914 – 25 June 2002) was a lifeboatman from Cromer on the north coast of Norfolk, England. His uncle, Henry Blogg, gave him the...
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  • Thumbnail for SS Georgia (1908)
    number 82. She was launched as Texas on 24 April 1908 and delivered to her owners, The Texas Company (now Texaco) on 18 July 1908. The Texas Company registered...
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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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  • 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 Ruby and Arthur Reed (ON 990)
    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 a launch from...
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