An old French compass, made at Bordeaux, lias been presented 1o Whitby Museum, Yorkshire. The magnetic needle is of the type known as the British Admiralty compass which was designed by Dr. W. Scoresby, the scientist who commanded Whitby whalers in the Arctic seas 115 years ago and who reached farthest' north in his day. : A whale over 25ft long and weighing between two and three tons was landed at Fleetwood, Lancashire, recently by the steam trawler John j Cattling. It was caught while the I vessel was fishing off Barra head, in the Southern Hebrides, and it was sold >on Fleetwood fish market-to a Black-' pool showman for £3.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 144, 14 December 1935, Page 25
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