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• Britain and America - an English language primer by Dr. Maria Alpers and Dr. Herbert Voges (Velhagen & Klasing Berlin und Bielefeld) includes an account of a service by the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat to the Dutch oil tanker Georgia November in 1927. It wrongly attributes the award of the gold medal to the Great Yarmouth coxswain. The gold medal for this service was, in fact, awarded to Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer.—P.H..