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 Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) history.

He first went to sea as a lifeboatman in 1894 in the rowing lifeboat Benjamin Bond Cabbell[4] and then served in the Louisa Heartwell[4] 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 men rowed their boat through the breakers, succeeding in coming alongside the stricken vessel, and taking off her crew.

[6] He 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 call out to the SS English Trader in 1941,[1] aground on Hammond's Knoll off Happisburgh, nearly led to disaster when the motor lifeboat H. F. Bailey[4] rolled onto her side, throwing five of her crew in the water.

Henry was given the RNLI Silver medal for that rescue, the rest of the crew receiving Bronzes, Walter Allen[1] posthumously.