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Henry Blogg
Henry George Blogg"Henry Blogg, the Greatest of the Lifeboatmen", Jolly, C., Pub: Poppyland Publishing, new edition 2002, 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 Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) history. Blogg of the Cromer Lifeboat Station is referred to as "the greatest of the lifeboatmen". 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 course of the rescue of survivors of the wreck of the in 1941, he was awarded the gold medal of the RNLI three times and the silver medal four times, the George Cross, the British Empire Medal, and a series of other awards. Life Born the son of Ellen Blogg, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cromer
Cromer ( ) is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk. It is north of Norwich, north-northeast of London and east of Sheringham on the North Sea coastline. The local government authorities are North Norfolk District Council, whose headquarters is on Holt Road in the town, and Norfolk County Council, based in Norwich. The civil parish has an area of and at the 2011 census had a population of 7,683. The town is notable as a traditional tourist resort and for the Cromer crab, which forms the major source of income for local fishermen. The motto ''Gem of the Norfolk Coast'' is highlighted on the town's road signs. History The town has given its name to the ''Cromerian Stage'' or ''Cromerian Complex'', also called the ''Cromerian'', a stage in the Pleistocene glacial history of north-western Europe. Cromer is not mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086. The place-name 'Cromer' is first found in a will of 1262 and could mean 'C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dogs Trust
Dogs Trust, known until 2003 as the National Canine Defence League, is a British animal welfare charity and humane society which specialises in the well-being of dogs. It is the largest dog welfare charity in the United Kingdom, caring for over 15,000 animals each year. Dogs Trust's primary objective is to protect all dogs in the UK and elsewhere from maltreatment, cruelty and suffering. It focuses on the rehabilitation and rehoming of dogs which have been either abandoned or given up by their owners through rehoming services. Dogs Trust has 22 rehoming centres across the UK and Ireland. Its first international rehoming centre opened in November 2009 in Dublin, Ireland. Its charity guidelines ensure that no mentally or physically healthy dog taken into the protection of its rehoming centres are euthanised. Dogs Trust also manages microchipping and neutering schemes in the United Kingdom and abroad, in order to reduce the number of unwanted litters of puppies and stray dogs. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cromer Lifeboat H F Bailey ON 694
RNLB ''H F Bailey'' (ON 694) was the second lifeboat at Cromer in the county of NorfolkThe Cromer Lifeboats, by Bob Malster & Peter Stibbons,:Poppyland Publishing, to bear the name of H F Bailey. She replaced ''H F Bailey'' (ON 670) which had been stationed at Cromer until 1924. In 1936 she became the station's reserve lifeboat and was renamed ''J B Proudfoot''. Description The lifeboat was built by J. Samuel Whites at Cowes in the Isle of Wight in 1923.''Cromer Lifeboats 1804–2004'', She was a Watson-class lifeboat and had a length of and breadth of . She was powered by a single Weyburn 80 hp petrol engine. Donor The Cromer station had four motor-powered lifeboats all called ''H F Bailey'' after the donor, Henry Francis Bailey of Brockenhurst, a London merchant who was born in Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cromer Lifeboat Louisa Heartwell ON 495
RNLB ''Louisa Heartwell'' (ON 495) was the sixth lifeboat to be stationed at Cromer on the coast of the English county of Norfolk She was launched from the beach station and was on station from 1902 to 1932. During her period on station at Cromer the ''Louisa Heartwell'' had only two coxswains during her 29-year career. They were Matthew James ''Buttons'' Harrison until his retirement in 1909, and then Henry George Blogg.''Henry Blogg, the Greatest of the Lifeboatmen'', Jolly, C., Pub: Poppyland Publishing, new edition 2002, Louisa Heartwell 'Retires' to The Historic Lifeboat Collection In 1996, ''Louisa Heartwell'' arrived in Chichester by road and was used as a houseboat, until she was acquired in 2019 by Premier Marinas, who in April 2020 donated her to the RNLI for restoration and display. As of 25 March 2021, she is now on display at the Historic Lifeboat Collection in Chatham, Kent. New lifeboat house With the arrival of the new Liverpool-class Pulling and Sailing li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cromer Lifeboat Benjamin Bond Cabbell II ON 12
RNLB ''Benjamin Bond Cabbell II'' (ON 12)The Cromer Lifeboats, by Bob Malster & Peter Stibbons,:Poppyland Publishing, was a Cromer non self-righter type lifeboat stationed at Cromer Lifeboat Station in the English county of Norfolk from September 1884''Cromer Lifeboats 1804-2004'', Leach, Nicholas & Russell, Paul, Pub: Tempus Publishing, 2004, until September 1902. Design and construction The ''Benjamin Bond Cabbell II'' was the fifth lifeboat to be stationed at the Norfolk town of Cromer, and the second lifeboat to bear the name ''Benjamin Bond Cabbell''. At the design process for this lifeboat, a number of meetings were held by the RNLI’s chief inspector of Lifeboats, Captain the Hon H.W. Chetwynd and the service's surveyor Mr Prowse with the crew of the Cromer Lifeboat. At the meetings the lifeboat men were asked what their preferences were, when considering designs for the new lifeboat. The local men who were mainly fishermen expressed a desire for a new boat to be on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Darling
Grace Horsley Darling (24 November 1815 – 20 October 1842) was an English lighthouse keeper's daughter. Her participation in the rescue of survivors from the shipwrecked ''Forfarshire'' in 1838 brought her national fame. The paddlesteamer ran aground on the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland in northeast England; nine members of the crew were saved.H. C. G. Matthew. 2004. Biography Grace Darling was born on 24 November 1815 at her grandfather's house in Northumberland. She was the seventh of nine children (four brothers and four sisters) born to William and Thomasin Darling, and when only a few weeks old, she was taken to live on Brownsman Island, one of the Farne Islands, in a small cottage attached to the lighthouse. Her father ran the lighthouse (built in 1795) for Trinity House, and earned a salary of £70 per year () with a bonus of £10 for satisfactory service. The accommodation was basic, and the lighthouse was not located in a good place to guide ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Corbett
Ronald Balfour Corbett (4 December 1930 – 31 March 2016) was a Scottish actor, broadcaster, comedian and writer. He had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the BBC television comedy sketch show ''The Two Ronnies''. He achieved prominence in David Frost's 1960s satirical comedy programme ''The Frost Report'' (with Barker) and subsequently starred in sitcoms such as ''No – That's Me Over Here!'', ''Now Look Here'', and '' Sorry!.'' Corbett began his acting career after moving from Edinburgh to London; he had early roles in the TV series ''Crackerjack'' and ''The Saint'', and appeared in the films ''You're Only Young Twice'', ''Rockets Galore!'', ''Casino Royale'', ''Some Will, Some Won't'', and ''No Sex Please, We're British''. He first worked with Ronnie Barker in the BBC TV series ''The Frost Report'' in 1966, and the two of them were given their own show by the BBC five years later. ''The Two Ronnies'' ran as a comedy sketch show from 1971 to 1987, and became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bust Of Henry Blogg Of Cromer 11,04,2007
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Henry Thomas Davies
Henry "Shrimp" Thomas Davies BEM (19 February 1914 – 25 June 2002) was a lifeboatman from Cromer on the north coast of Norfolk, England. His uncle, Henry Blogg, gave him the nickname "Shrimp" after seeing him as a tiny baby. In 1931 he joined the crew of the Cromer lifeboat ''H F Bailey'' and became coxswain in 1947, taking over from Henry Blogg. Davies retired in February 1976, after serving as coxswain of lifeboats ''Henry Blogg'' and '' Ruby and Arthur Reed'', having been one of Cromer Lifeboat Station's longest serving coxswains. ''English Trader'' Shrimp Davies had a near-fatal involvement in the famous rescue of the on 26 October 1941. At 8.15 am the Cromer lifeboat ''H F Bailey'', crewed by twelve men including Shrimp Davies and coxswain Henry Blogg, was launched to aid the stricken ship. By 11.35 am the lifeboat had reached the site, the Hammond Knoll sandbank. The gale was at full force and three of the ''English Traders crew had been swept off the fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RNLB H F Bailey III (ON 777)
RNLB ''H F Bailey'' (ON 777) is the most famous Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat to have served from Cromer, because she was used by Coxswain Henry Blogg to perform many of his most famous lifesaving exploits. The lifeboat was on station for the ten years between 1935 and 1945. She is now part of the National Historic Fleet and has been preserved in the RNLI Henry Blogg Museum in Cromer. From 1923 to the end of the Second World War in 1945 the Cromer station had four motor-powered lifeboats all called ''H F Bailey'' after the donor, Mr Henry Francis Bailey, a London merchant who had been born in Brockenhurst, Norfolk and had died in 1916. Construction ''H F Bailey'' was built at the yard of Groves and Guttridge Ltd on the Isle of Wight. Her hull is constructed using double diagonal planking of Honduras mahogany on a framework of teak ribs and beams, with the stem and stern posts and her keel of English oak. The stern and stem posts are grown to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth (), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town and unparished area in, and the main administrative centre of, the Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located east of Norwich. A population of 38,693 in the 2011 Census made it Norfolk's third most populous. Its fishing industry, mainly for herring, shrank after the mid-20th century and has all but ended. North Sea oil from the 1960s supplied an oil-rig industry that services offshore natural gas rigs; more recently, offshore wind power and other renewable energy industries have ensued. Yarmouth has been a resort since 1760 and a gateway from the Norfolk Broads to the North Sea. Holiday-making rose when a railway opened in 1844, bringing easier, cheaper access and some new settlement. Wellington Pier opened in 1854 and Britannia Pier in 1858. Through the 20th century, Yarmouth boomed as a resort, with a promenade, pubs, trams, fish-and-chip shops, theatres, the Pleasu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RNLB H F Bailey (ON 777)
RNLB ''H F Bailey'' (ON 777) is the most famous Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat to have served from Cromer, because she was used by Coxswain Henry Blogg to perform many of his most famous lifesaving exploits. The lifeboat was on station for the ten years between 1935 and 1945. She is now part of the National Historic Fleet and has been preserved in the RNLI Henry Blogg Museum in Cromer. From 1923 to the end of the Second World War in 1945 the Cromer station had four motor-powered lifeboats all called ''H F Bailey'' after the donor, Mr Henry Francis Bailey, a London merchant who had been born in Brockenhurst, Norfolk and had died in 1916. Construction ''H F Bailey'' was built at the yard of Groves and Guttridge Ltd on the Isle of Wight. Her hull is constructed using double diagonal planking of Honduras mahogany on a framework of teak ribs and beams, with the stem and stern posts and her keel of English oak. The stern and stem posts are grown to the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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