RNLB Harriot Dixon (ON 770)

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 the county of Norfolk^[1] in 1934, She was the number 2 lifeboat and was stationed at the old lifeboat house on Cromer beach.^[2] During the thirty years that she was the No 2 lifeboat at Cromer she was launched 55 times and was responsible for saving the lives of 20 people.^[3] Dixon road in the southern suburb 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.^[3] She took up station at the beach lifeboat house on 2 August 1934^[3] and remained at station as the No 2 lifeboat for thirty years until 15 June 1964.^[3] 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).^[3] 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.^[3] Harriot Dixon went on to be the longest serving motor lifeboat at Cromer.

Rescues and service

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