COXSWAIN HENRY BLOGG, of Cromer, who recently received the Silver Medal of the Institution for the rescue, last October, of thirty lives from the Italian steamer, Monte Nevoso, has received a postcard from San Diego, California, which says : " At a distance of 14,000 odd miles we Britons have read of the splendid deeds of you and your helpers.

We are grateful and proud to think that we remain your fellow country- men. Three cheers for the Island of the Sea." San Diego on the Pacific coast of America, is roughly 6,000 miles from Great Britain. Coxswain Blo£g's correspondent, it is interesting to see, looks towards England not eastwards across America and the Atlantic, but westwards over the Pacific, Asia and Europe,.