SEARCH FOR TRAWLER

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 196, 16 May 1936, Page 11

SEARCH FOR TRAWLER

May Be Declared Pirate VESSEL DISAPPEARS (Received May 16, 1 a.m.) London, May 15. Lloyd’s agents throughout tbe world have been instructed to watcli for the North Sea trawler Girl Pat, which the Admiralty declares will be a pirate if it is proved that the skipper and crew of four seized her, and it will be then the duty of every ship flying the British Hag to assist in apprehending her. The trawler, equipped with the latest Diesel engines, left Dover on April 4 and put in at Corcubion (Spain) on April 12. It left nine days later, after extensive repairs, not stating its destination. Its owners, the Marstand Fishing Company, notified the underwriters on April 27 that they regarded the ship as a total loss. They explained that they engaged the skipper a few months ago and he picked his own crew, with the exception of the engineer, whom he left at Dover. The case has recalled the disappearance of the Ferret, in the ’eighties. She was discovered at Melbourne owing to the curiosity of a coastguard, who found no vessel bearing the name under which she was disguised.