A FIGHT AT SEA.
LONDON, July 11. Early yesterday morning a boat load of Mumbles police proceeded a mile out to sea to deal with a mutiny on board the s.s. Fulgent, outward bound with coal from Port Talbot to Zeebrugge, Belgium. The crew was a mixed one, and included a number of West Indian negroes. These men, it seems, refused work, and the ship was soon in a state of uproar; the disturbance developed into a fight, and knives were used. The captain, who rushed down among the men jeceived a/ nasty cut on the right hand, but he managed to quell the mutineers, and had them put in irons. The Swansea pilot cutter Beaufort was signalled, and she put back, and telephoned for the police. The men in irons wete afterwards released, the captain believing be could manage the crew for the rest of the passage. The police withdrew, and the mutineers will be dealt with at Zeebrngge.
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Northern Advocate, 25 August 1913, Page 7
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160A FIGHT AT SEA. Northern Advocate, 25 August 1913, Page 7
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