DIRECT ACTION AT SEA

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 100, 2 May 1929, Page 10

DIRECT ACTION AT SEA

A story recalling the days of Blake was told recently when Skipper H. Evans, of the North King, returned to Grimsby (reports the "Daily Chronicle"). Skipper Evans had shot £200 worth of gear—buoyed and lighted for cod fishing—in the Icelandic fisheries. When he went to haul it lie found that the lines had been cut and the fish had vanished. While cruising in search of his gear the skipper sighted a foreign motor fishing boat, on the deck of which were buoys which Skipper Evans recognised as his property. He sat off in pursuit of tho foreigner, debating whether to report the sraft and leave tlie law to take its coure, or to act himself Ho decided on direct action. Overhauling the fugitivo ho laid the trawler alongside of her, am] with a boarding party jumped on deck. Despito the protests of the foreigners the boarders raised tho hatches, and below found their missing gear. "You are no better than a pirate," Evans tola W,« f\ BhlPmaster, as he had the lines and buoys and 20 score of cod from the motor-boat's catch removed dare » P" Re P°rt mo « you