She was housed in the boathouse built by the NASLSM, and would serve Palling for 6 years, being launched on service 6 times, and saving 20 lives.

Originally a 30-foot lifeboat stationed at Hastings named Victoria, she was sent to Forrestt in London for conversion to be a 36-foot, 12-oared boat.

Yarmouth in February 1864 free of charge by the Great Eastern Railway Company, and then sailed up to Palling by the crew.

[2] On her first call on 23 December 1864, the Parsee went to the aid of the schooner Idas of Nantes, on passage from Danzig to Dunkirk, driven ashore at Palling.

[4] At 4:30am on the 7 Mar 1907, Palling No.1 lifeboat 54th West Norfolk Regiment (ON 471) launched to the aid of the vessel Vixen.

In pitch-black gale force conditions, the lifeboat managed to rescue 5 crew, but one man was left clinging to the rigging, cold, and unable to climb down by himself.

With two of the party now on board, the lifeboat was hit by a large wave, and washed away from the wreck, leaving Pestell alone on the stricken vessel.