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When the bill arrived Marstrand Fishing Co., greatly excited, notified Lloyd's. Lloyd's outlawed Girl Pat, notified its agents along the Atlantic and Mediterranean to watch for her, then came to the conclusion it would be cheaper to pay the ?3,000 insurance than to run the...
No frozen Arctic outpost is Hammerfest, but a thriving fishing village of 3,300 persons. Because the Gulf Stream curls across the Atlantic to flick the top tip of Scandinavia, Hammerfest's temperature is warm in summer, rarely gets below freezing even in midwinter, when there is no sun...
Out of Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, plies a fleet of some 500 tiny motor trawlers on two or three week trips to the North Sea fishing grounds. Last week one of these little tubs was involved in an extraordinary adventure which set maritime England agog with curiosity.
Last April 1 Marstrand Fishing Co. at Grimsby ordered Captain George Black Osborne and a crew of four to "test the engines" of Girl Pat, a brand new 130-ton motor trawler with auxiliary sail. Once outside the harbor, Girl Pat made a beeline for the south. Two days later...
In England, Skipper Osborne's wife was ill with worry, could think of no reason for the wild trip unless he was heading for New Zealand, where his brother has a fishing fleet. A friend said he had been asked to go, that Girl Pat was bound for the...