On the night of 2ist. December, 1945, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued eleven men from two naval motor fishing vessels which had stranded on the Gunfleet Sands in a very heavy sea. The life-boat's rudder was damaged and Coxswain Thomas Bloom carried out the rescue steering the boat by her engines.

He has been awarded a clasp to his bronze medal, and the motor mechanic and assistant mechanics vellums. Coxswain Bloom won the silver medal and the bronze medal during the war..