BRAVE BRITISH PILOTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 165563, 15 June 1918, Page 5

BRAVE BRITISH PILOTS

Si'LEXDID SERVICE TO TILE NATION. A'; tiie United Kingdom Pilots' Association. London, recently, amcti'4 ihosc- present was Dr Macnaninrn. Financial Secretary to the Admiralty. The Lord Mayor, in receiving t'.ie rumbers, said theru was no more, important body of men. lie had been intimately acquainted with their work for a longer term of yours than lie cared to think of. _ llis lather and members of his family wero seafarinii men and «-:ipablo skipiwrs. ami soine-i-ines ho himself felt he <-ould take a ship -'.own Channel and even to S'andv Hook, lie had crossed flio Athuuie si'vi-nty-two times. l)r Mr.eiiamara sai<l he had wished Ic. attend so that ho might, on behalf of the Roard of Admiralty, and on lie-half of their fellow-countrymen, assure the pilots how grateful they were to them, and to their shipmates of the mercantile marine, for their in-meastsrable ureal services rendere-1 to the nat'on at- this time. In common with the British merchant service, the pilots entered the war period with a Sireat lecord, second to none ior jir.o se:;i;.fti;like qu:i!it:es. The very wcrtl '•pilot" bad come to occupy a place in o-ir lnrsjnage intrendity, resonrci fulness, and the full discharge of dai.f.eroiis asid arduous duty. The war. as condueied by Germany, hud enormously added to the estimate in «l:icii ihoy were already hold. The \ve« k'y list of vessels entering and .'.r.iiing from our ports w:»s tlie British seamen'': answer to Germany's attempt at "fr'nhifnlncss.'' and he ventured to say that nothing added more Tuel to the ilame of the "Hyniu of lfate" than the week'y l : st- of enterinus and sailings- Our pilots had imllantiy i.lavod t!n>:r part in keening the Ihg flying on the seas. They had l.ail their fn'l slime of casualties which such a noMe effort inevitably entailed. To the w'dows and orphans, to thos:- near and dear, to their falle-t comrades, l:e de>ired to tender re-S|-.e:-tfu'. sympathy.