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RNLB Harriot Dixon (ON 770)
History
Owner	Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)
Builder	Groves and Guttridge Ltd, Isle of Wight.
Official Number	ON 770
Donor	£3,750 Legacy of Mr William Edward Dixon, Worthing, West Sussex.
Station	Cromer No2 Station
Launched	1934
Christened	27 August 1937, By the Rt Hon Sir Samuel Hoare
Fate	Sold out of service in 1964 converted to cabin cruiser
General characteristics
Class and type	Liverpool-class
Length	35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) overall
Beam	10 ft 3 in (3.12 m)
Draught	4 ft 5 in (1.35 m)
Installed power	Single Weyburn AE6 Diesel engine of 35 bhp (26 kW)

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 eastern England. Launched in 1934, she served for thirty years as the No 2 lifeboat at Cromer. She was launched 55 times and was responsible for saving the lives of 20 people. Dixon road, in the southern part of Cromer, is named after the lifeboat.

History

The Liverpool-class motor lifeboat Harriot Dixon was built by Groves and Guttridge Ltd, on the Isle of Wight. She took up station at the beach lifeboat house on 2 August 1934 and remained at station as the No 2 lifeboat for thirty years until 15 June 1964. This lifeboat had been funded from a legacy of £3,750 left by William Edward Dixon, a surgeon, of West Worthing of the then county of Sussex (Now West Sussex). Mr Dixon had died in 1921 and had left the money to fund a lifeboat to be named after his mother and if possible to be stationed on the Kentish or east coast. Harriot Dixon went on to be the longest serving motor lifeboat at Cromer.

Rescues and service

References

1. The Cromer Lifeboats, by Bob Malster & Peter Stibbons,:Poppyland Publishing, ISBN 0-946148-21-X
2. ^ Cromer Lifeboats 1804–2004, Leach, Nicholas & Russell, Paul, Pub: Tempus Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7524-3197-8

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