The Lifeboat That Wouldn't Give Up

It was October 1941 and the English Trader, aground on a sandbank, was being pounded to pieces by tremendous seas. Forty-four men were huddled on the bridge, and they saw a huge wave hit the approaching Cromer lifeboat, sweep half her crew overboard and come within inches of capsizing her. They knew then that they had little chance of being saved. But this was the legendary Cox'n Henry Blogg of the Cromer lifeboat-in the lifeboat that wouldn'give up. Taking part the present coxswain of the Cromer lifeboat -'SHRIMP' DAVIES DICK DAVIES, KATHLEEN DAVIES ROSE DAVIES, ' KELLY ' HARRISON and one-time gunlayer of the English Trader - WILLIAM HICKSON