Henry Blogg

Henry Blogg

Henry George Blogg GC BEM (6 February 1876 – 13 June 1954) was a famous lifeboatman from Cromer on the north coast of Norfolk, England. Henry Blogg of Cromer is referred to as "the greatest of the lifeboatmen". From the epic rescue of the crew of the Pyrin and then of half of the crew of the Fernebo in 1917, through to his near drowning in the service to the English Trader in 1941, he would win the gold medal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution three times and the silver medal four times, the George Cross, the British Empire Medal, and a series of other awards.