Cromer Lifeboat Benjamin Bond Cabbell II ON 12
Benjamin Bond Cabbell II (ON 12)
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| Owner: | Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) |
| Builder: | James Beeching & Brothers boat builders, Great Yarmouth |
| Official Number: | ON 12 |
| Donor: | Legacy of Miss Ann Egdell, Alnwick, Northumberland |
| Station | Cromer |
| Cost: | £365 3s 6d |
| Launched: | 1884 |
| Christened: | 29 September 1884 by Mrs Bond Cabbell |
| In service: | September 1884 to September 1902 |
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| Type: | Cromer non self-righter |
| Displacement: | 30 tonnes |
| Length: | 35 ft (11 m) overall |
| Beam: | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Depth: | 4 ft (1.2 m) |
| Installed power: | Dipping Lug sail |
| Propulsion: | Fourteen oars double banked |
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 from September 1884 until September 1902.
The Benjamin Bond Cabbell II was the fifth lifeboat to be stationed at the Norfolk town of Cromer, and the second lifeboat to bear the name Benjamin Bond Cabbell. At the design process for this lifeboat, a number of meetings were held by the RNLI’s chief inspector of Lifeboats, Captain the Hon H.W. Chetwynd and the service’s surveyor Mr Prowse with the crew of the Cromer Lifeboat. At the meetings the lifeboat men were asked what their preferences were, when considering designs for the new lifeboat. The local men who were mainly fishermen expressed a desire for a new boat to be on the lines of the lifeboat which had been stationed there before 1858. These suggestions by local men, Mr James Davis, Mr James Mayes and Mr Thomas Blogg were very similar to the Norfolk and Suffolk Type lifeboats. By the 27 November 1883 the surveyor, Mr Prowse, had agreed a design with the local fisherman, and an order was placed with James Beeching boat builders, of Great Yarmouth.
The new lifeboat hull was constructed using the clench method fixed with copper fastenings. The keel was 4 inches (100 mm) deep and 5 inches (130 mm) wide, with an iron keel plate and a belt of cork. She was 35 feet (11 m) long with a breadth of 10 feet 6 inches (3.20 m). The inside depth was 4 feet (1.2 m). There were fourteen oars which were double banked and she was also equipped with a dipping lug sail. The lifeboat would be steered by either a rudder or sweep oars. Benjamin Bond Cabbell II had a watertight deck, with copper tubes and self-acting valves to release the water, and portable airtight cases round the sides of the boat between the deck and the thwarts. Cork-packed air-cases were placed under the deck in the wings of the lifeboat. These cases weighed 4.5 tons and drew 18 inches (460 mm) of water clear of ballast. The boat had a relatively light construction with a high bow and a raking stem. The keel was curved, typical of the north country-designed lifeboats first built in the late eighteenth century. The water ballast tanks had ten relieving valves and the rudder was retractable to prevent it being damaged when beach launched or during the recovery procedure.
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