"Hollon The 2nd"

At a meeting on April 3rd 1884 it was decided by the RNLI to place a new lifeboat at Filey.  When he learned of this Mr. R.W.Hollon sent £650 to the RNLI to pay for the new boat and her equipment. The new boat arrived on September 13th 1884 at Filey Railway station were she was taken to the beach, Rev.A.N Cooper conducted a service of dedication and Mr.Hollon named her Hollon the 2nd, the lifeboat was a 38ft 10 oared self-righter built by Woolfe &son and cost £345-0-0d and her carriage cost £130-8-0d

The lifeboat had to wait 14 months for it's first service on November 24th 1885 she was launched in a South Easterly gale and escorted several cobles to safety.

In 1889 a new boathouse was built at Filey costing £430.

At the end of 1891 "Hollon the 2nd" was taken to London for alterations to be made to her, so a relief lifeboat was sent to stand in while she was away, this boat took part in two service whilst at Filey the first to the brig "Lancet" that got into difficulties on January 11th 1892 in a northerly gale and heavy seas.  The lifeboat-men found the brig to be fully waterlogged the men having been at the pumps for 48 hours. The lifeboat saved 7 men from the brig, 1 man been lost overboard earlier.

The second service the relief lifeboat took part in was on April 28th 1892 during a northerly gale, early that morning the Scarborough lugger "Tally Ho" was seen running before the gale, and on rounding Filey Brigg she ran into rough seas.  The lifeboat was called out and found the "Tally Ho" half full of water and her sails had been blown away the crew of 4 were rescued and landed at Filey.

The "Hollon the 2nd" returned to Filey in June 1892.

At noon on October 16th 1896 the Norwegian barquentine "Maria Berner" ran into Filey Bay to seek shelter from a N.N.E gale, she was bound from Gelfe to Hartlepool with a cargo of pit props. She requested assistance by raising a flag three quarters of the way up her mast the lifeboat launched in very heavy seas when they arrived at the boat the crew wanted to be taken ashore 4 of them were taken by lifeboat and 3 by a fishing boat returning home from a fishing trip. That evening the sailors were taken back to their boat by a shore boat, but at 11-15pm flares were seen coming from the "Maria Berner"  after one of it's anchor cables parted the lifeboat brought ashore the 6 men who were on board.

The "Hollon the 2nd" was launched on February 25th 1906 at 3-30a.m in a blinding snowstorm after reports of a vessel ashore at Speeton,  the lifeboat found the steam-trawler "Pearl" of Grimsby, she had lost her propeller and rudder, the lifeboat stood by until the next high tide when two tugs pulled her off and took her to Scarborough.

The next call answered by the lifeboat on December 16th 1906, was to another Grimsby trawler "Helicia" which had come ashore at Gristhorpe to the North of Filey the lifeboat launched at 10am in heavy seas and snow showers and stood by the vessel till 3.30pm when the skipper no longer required the assistance the lifeboat returned to station.

At 9pm on the December 28th 1906 a small boat from the S.S "Siward" of Newcastle who was anchored in the bay, was sighted making for the beach in a fierce ENE gale and heavy snow the lifeboat launched and escorted the boat with 5 men in safely to the beach.

What turned out to be the last service by "Hollon the 2nd" was carried out on April4th 1907 when she was called out to standby and escort local cobles in heavy seas.