THE MINE-SWEEPERS.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13794, 15 June 1915, Page 2

THE MINE-SWEEPERS.

Over 300 of Grimsby's great fleet of trawlers are engaged in the hazardous task of sweeping the seas for mines sown by the Germans, and this fact suggests these lines by H. tngamells; in the "Spectator":— . . :- ' Little they care, come wind or wave, | The men of Grimsby Town; There are mines to destroy and lives to save, And they take the risk, these sailormen 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 slowSeeking .tho. hidden fate" Strewn with a. devilish' hate. Death may conio in a terrible form, Death in a calm or death in a storm, Death without warning, stark and grim, Death in a horrible, hideous guise:— Such is the minesweepers' sacrifice! Careless of tenons and scornful of ease, Stolid and steadfast, they sweep tho seas. Cheerfully, simply, fearlessly, The men of Grimsby Town Do their bit on the rolling sea— -Tho storm-swept, treach'rous, grey North SeaDoing iheir duty unflinchingly, Keeping the dfcath-rate down. /*