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RNLB Harriot Dixon (ON 770)
RNLB ''Harriot Dixon'' (ON 770) is a retired lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, that was stationed at in the county of Norfolk〔''OS Explorer Map 252 – Norfolk Coast East''. ISBN 978-0-319-23815-8.〕 in 1934, She was the number 2 lifeboat and was stationed at the old lifeboat house on Cromer beach.〔''The Cromer Lifeboats'', by Bob Malster & Peter Stibbons,:Poppyland Publishing, ISBN 0-946148-21-X〕 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.〔''Cromer Lifeboats 1804–2004'', Leach, Nicholas & Russell, Paul, Pub: Tempus Publishing, 2004, ISBN 0-7524-3197-8〕 Dixon road in the southern suburb of Cromer is named after the Lifeboat.
==History==
The 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.
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