Lifeboats - medals of Henry Blogg, Cromer - Dixon postcard c.1970s
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- Picture / Image: The Awards of Henry Blogg - Coxwain of the Cromer Lifeboat incl George Cross
- Publisher: J Arthur Dixon (L6/SP. 4501)
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not work) :
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Henry George Blogg[1][2] GC BEM (6 February 1876 – 13 June 1954) was a lifeboatman from Cromer on the north coast of Norfolk, England and the most decorated in RNLI history.
Blogg of the Cromer Lifeboat Station is referred to as ""the greatest of the lifeboatmen"".[1] From the 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 was awarded 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.[1]
Born the son of Ellen Blogg,[1] he was brought up in the family of James Davies (whose son John became Henry's stepfather after John Davies married Ellen Blogg in 1881), himself coxswain of the Cromer lifeboat. He first went to sea as a lifeboatman in 1894 in the rowing lifeboat Benjamin Bond Cabbell[3] and then served in the Louisa Heartwell[3] as second coxswain under Jimmy 'Buttons' Harrison. When coxswain Harrison retired in 1909[1] due to ill health, Blogg won the vote to take on the leadership role.
Away from lifeboat duties, Blogg was foremost a crab fisherman but Cromer being a popular holiday resort, he also ran a deckchair and beach hut hire business.[1]
At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century lifeboats around the coast of Britain relied on the strength of the oarsmen and the power of the wind. The Cromer boat was launched from an open beach, and judgement and determination were the prime requirements of the coxswain. In the early hours of a fierce January morning in 1917 the Cromer lifeboat was launched to aid a vessel just in sight off Cromer, the Pyrin. The Cromer men rowed their boat through the breakers, succeeding in coming alongside the stricken vessel, and taking off her crew. They rowed back to Cromer. As they reached the beach the Swedish vessel the Fernebo struck a naval mine and was blown in half.[1] The two halves drifted towards the beach.
From one half, about 16 men set out in a ship's boat. As they reached the edge of the breakers onto the beach, their boat was capsized. Teams of men, grasping each other's arms, had walked into the water, and they were able to help the men from the boat, and aid them ashore. Meanwhile the lifeboat was rehoused on its trailer and was pushed again into the breakers, to launch to the other half of the Fernebo.
The ferocity of the sea threw the boat back onto the beach. Recarriage and try again. This happened at least three times. It was not until midnight, under the light of searchlights from the clifftop, that the lifeboat finally reached the stricken half-vessel and took off its crew. Blogg had led his men for nearly 24 hours of heroic effort.[1]
In 1924[1] Blogg was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal by the King. In 1927, Blogg was awarded a gold watch and his crew a silver watch each after a rescue on the Haisborough Sands.[4]
Henry received a Silver Medal from the RNLI in 1932[1] for rescuing 30 men and a dog from the steamer Monte Nevoso aground on the Haisborough Sands. The Canine Defence League awarded him their own Silver Medal.[1]
In October 1939 the lifeboat went to the SS Mount Ida.[1] During the long night-time rescue the lifeboat was damaged and the no. 2 boat was required to help.
In 1941 he was awarded the BEM.[1] At around the same time it was announced that the Empire Gallantry Medal he was awarded in 1924 was to be substituted with the George Cross[1] which he was awarded in
The call out to the English Trader in 1941,[1] aground on Hammond's Knoll off Happisburgh, nearly led to disaster when the motor lifeboat H.F.Bailey[3] rolled onto her side, throwing five of her crew in the water. Blogg was one of them.
Still on board, crewman William H. Davies grasped the wheel and steered the lifeboat towards the men in the water. One by one they were picked up. Signalman Walter Allen[1] would not survive long; his heart was failing. Blogg turned the lifeboat from the English Trader and headed for the nearest harbour at Great Yarmouth.
At 3 a.m. the next morning, Blogg awoke his crew, ready to try again. They slipped from the wartime harbour and were soon back at the sands. The sea had abated, and forty-four men on the English Trader, who had not expected to live through the night, were saved. Henry was given the Silver medal for that rescue, the rest of the crew receiving Bronzes, Walter Allen[1] posthumously.
type=printed postcards
theme=transportation
sub-theme=sea
transportation type=lifeboats
number of items=single
period=1945 - present
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Listing Information
| Listing Type | Gallery Listing |
| Listing ID# | 125000558 |
| Start Time | Fri 28 Feb 2014 10:19:10 (IST) |
| Close Time | Run Until Sold |
| Starting Bid | Fixed Price (no bidding) |
| Item Condition | Used |
| Bids | 0 |
| Views | 783 |
| Dispatch Time | 2 Days |
| Quantity | 1 |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Auto Extend | No |
| Subject | Lifeboat |
