SAILOR KIDNAPPED
TRAWLER CAPTAIN’S ACTION PATROL SHIP ELUDED LONDON, August 24. Truth has again caught up with fiction to the adventure of a Grimsby trawler. A recent novel described how the skipper of a trawler in Norwegian waters kidnapped a patrol officer and took him to Hull. Now comes the story of how Martin Olesen, skipper of the Grimsby trawler Visenda, “kidnapped” a seaman from an Icelandic patrol boat, the Gartur. "Although I was not fishing within territorial limits,” said Olesen, “I knew I would be fined if I came before an Icelandic court.
“After boarding my trawler, the captain of the Gartur put a sailor on board and told me to take bearings from a buoy and join him. When I reached the buoy I did not stop. “After a week the Icelander was a ' homesick, so I put him on board an Icelandic sailing boat.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20829, 10 September 1937, Page 9
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