THE MINE-SWEEPERS.
Over 300 of Grimsby's great fleet of trawlers are 5 engaged in the hazardous task oi sweeping -the seas for mines sown by the Germans, and thio fact suggei.ts these lines by H. Ingamells in the Sp-.c-tator: — Little they care, pome wind or wave, The men of Grimsby Town ; There are mines to destroy and lives to save, And they take the risk, these sai'lormen brave. With a laugh and a joke, or a rollicking stave, As the gear 'goes plunging down. Honour the trawler's crew, For fear they never knew ! Now on their quest they go With measured tack and slow — Seeking the hidden fate Strewn with a devilish hate. Death may come in a terrible form, Death in a calm or death in a storm, Death without warning, stark and grim, Heath with a tearing of limb from limb, Deathin a horrible, hideous guise: — Such is the minesweepers' sacrifice ! - Careless of terrors and scornful of ease, Stolid and steadfast, they sweep the seas. Cheerfully, simply, fearlessly, The men of Grimsby Town Do their bit on the rolling sea— The storm-swept, treach'rous, crey North Sea— " Doing their duty unflinchingly, Keeping the death-rate down.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 13
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196THE MINE-SWEEPERS. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 13
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