HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., died in Cromer and District Hospital on the night of the 13th of June, 1954, at the age of 78.

Henry Blogg's record as a life-boat- man is unique in the history of the Institution, for no other life-boatman has won so many medals for gallantry.

He first joined the crew of the Cromer life-boat in January 1894 at the age of 18. He was appointed second coxswain in 1902 and coxswain in 1909.

First Gold Medal Three times he won the Institution's gold medal for gallantry. His first gold medal was awarded for the rescue of the entire crew of eleven of the Swedish steamer Fernebo, which had struck a mine during a gale on the 9th of January, 1917. The Fernebo was blown in half. The Cromer life- boat, which had only just returned from a service to a Greek vessel, was immediately launched again in cir- cumstances which led the District Inspector who reported the service to say of Coxswain Blogg: "It was his own remarkable personality and really great qualities of leadership which magnetised tired men into launching, and when the boat was launched it was the consummate skill with which he launched her and the encouragement he gave his crew which brought their efforts to such a successful conclusion." Ten years later, on the 22nd of November, 1927, the Cromer life-boat rescued fifteen men from the Dutch tanker Georgia, which had broken in half on the Haisborough Sands. The service lasted twenty hours and Cox- swain Blogg was awarded a clasp to his gold medal.

Coxswain Blogg's third gold medal was awarded for services in September, 1941, in which 88 lives were rescued from six steamers of a convoy which had been wrecked on the Hais- borough Sands.

Coxswain Blogg's silver medals were awarded for the rescue of 30 men from the Italian steamer Monte Nevoso in 1932; for the rescue of 2 men from the barge Sepoy of Dover in 1933; for the rescue of the crew of 29 of the Greek steamer Mount Ida in 1939; and for the rescue of the crew of 44 of the steamer English Trader in 1941.

Coxswain Blogg was also awarded the George Cross and the British Empire Medal, and he was presented with a gold watch by the Queen of Holland..