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These small craft, mostly of wood or wood-and-steel construction, cannot successfully fight a submarine. (Already one such patrol craft, the converted fishing smack YP-389, has been sunk by submarine shellfire.) Few are big enough to carry depth charges or adequate guns. Few are fast enough to drop...
Already old two-and three-masters are being rerigged and recaulked; fishing and lumber schooners are bidding for commercial cargoes (and getting them); and importers all along the Caribbean are beginning to specify "Dispatch via sail" when steamers are not available. This means slower and more uncertain voyages, higher insurance...
At fog-wreathed Grimsby on the North Sea, where British fishermen now don the greasy dungarees of the Royal Navy to go fishing for mine and submarine, Writer A. J. Liebling of The New Yorker found British character wondrously salted away in the diary of a patrol-boat captain. The...
Tom Johnston gave figures, however, to show that all was not lost-provided the English realized the gravity of Scotland's position. In 1942, 16 new war industries were granted Scotland. His committee, he said, hoped to corner more, while working at the same time against the drift of...
After May 31 the U.S. manufacture of fishing tackle will cease for the duration. Only exception: fish hooks, which can be continued at a rate equal to one-half last year's output (some 100,000,000-four times that many were imported from Norway, England, Germany and Japan...