A wong is at ahd ded in a from my. first, visit. to anne hunting prevents one's INS from considering the destroy No, I was in minesweepers; those little ships who we k round Bick cones a. gale ba caup who. can, be met with by day lit, yt search.the seas for hidden death so that others aya ana whose amusement lies in he mathematical their own survival.
Just ire through It oes prosaic Most of- hara Naval Reservists water at 9 knots and hoping for when I tell you that Tatbs {or the key positions such as 1919 over 23,000 mines signalman, gunlayers and helmsman. quite: as safe. as it appears to be. EDS barge brought me to in the morning when
where the mine-
. There is pathing that the Navy can teach a North Sea fisherman about seamanship and. very little about minesweeping—which, as will be seen, is very similar to the peacetime trawling that they have known since boyhood. What they do want fife In a German raid on the British the land it was hard to pick Fishing Fleets in the last war, sum-up against the all-embracing med up this feeling perfectly. We were on.our.way home and he had spent long hours struggling with wet cables as the sweeping wires were coiled down. "Me, I could do this ugh plindfold—as could any lad from Grimsby—what I wants to do is learn to work that bloody gun."
Work of Older Generation swinging aside to give us passage. ished some lines in f. well have -been They describe the an older generation of fisher-who answered an earlier call bones lie on. the sea bed jue to the Shetlands Silver Pit an' there we'll oh, we'll fetch Mer, an' it's time to wild work doin' on the Sea Ground.:
Ant it's Wake up Johnnie, they want (With. your. long sea boots and your trawling' ind: wge Lewis gun while tarry old tarpaulin), jon the little poop- are lashed four All across the bitter seas duty comes depth. charges for. direct action against 1 Jurking submarines.
In ne Winter's weather off the North Themen who sail ju minesweepers: s 165 well: welves 1 laugh at Well; welves leaned to, Jawu Seve men Ronde rangers now; of An' the black spawn swimming' on the the 's bow, atrbw" wave MNA coasts of, Scotland the quiet -coastal villages North Sea" Ground hold since the dawn of British history.
For mine-sweeping is like trawling. on have the same principle of a with a rifle bullet at short range, constant level "kites" -are used To keep. the: sweeping wire at a
the fleets—and in naval work an idea adopted by the Navy from ing ship to run into it—and no mine-sweeping trawler has. been known to float for more than 45 seconds after striking a mine at sea, Few Chances of Heroism White plays and mates in two moves.
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Under these conditions the chances of heroism, the sort of heroism that ever becomes known, are few. Once rocking in the swell and knocking against the ship's hull with every roll.
The. captain, a. regular Navy, man, ordered his little crew i into the life boats and with a spanner tucked into his belt slid down the wire into the icy water. There dr horns until the egg' was harm-he set to work, unscrewing the dead-
less. Then he climbed back inboard, signalled his crew to return and went below for breakfast.
This was only one of the stories I heard while sitting in the tiny wardroom of a converted fishing Buts ga. trawler somewhere at sea. b dates back to the first German as does the historic story of a aaa who rowed alongside a British cruiser When he was within a few feet of the cruisers side he hailed quarter-deck: "Ahoy there, what do I do with this?" The officer of the watch took one look at mes mine and told the fisherman in ne uncertain terms just what he could request. " want to get us do. with it, mu with the plaintive 8 r Foo a "Its all sight, Sony you
get the fisherman; Perpetual Job are >not lovely but e the mistake of play-lub, South finessed the drovelout West's queen. led a ade and East over-ihe Ded pitching of their little hear the cheery voices of their recall the comfort on the ere
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