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After service, the men returned on board their vessels with books and tracts, which had been distributed among them. We remained until the following day, that we might see the fish caught. Our friend the skipper gave us a great deal of information about trawlers. The Yarmouth fleet consists of several hundred vessels, ranging from fifty to seventy tons. They have increased rapidly.
In addition to the handicap of this unprotected boundary, we have a fifteen-hundred-mile coast-line absolutely unguarded. Japanese fishermen bring their nationals up from the Mexican coast in their trawlers and set them ashore on the southern California coast.
This beam is dragged along at the bottom of the sea, and stirs up the turbot, bream, plaice, soles, and other flat-fish which lie there; when they swim into the bag and are caught. These trawlers fish in the North Sea, sometimes a hundred and a hundred and fifty miles away from England, off the Texel. Other fishing grounds are from twelve to twenty miles off the British coast.
In the dazzling glare a great bulbous mass of dark-coloured metal heaved slowly up out of the water midway between the two trawlers. It was hardly in sight before Grimball had flung his rifle to his shoulder and fired. Followed instantly an explosion so terrific that Ken distinctly felt the deck of the trawler lift under his feet.
We have had gentlefolks down from London about it, men who argue and palaver, and wear high hats and are said to have long bills, and there is talk of a Government cutter to protect us, towed by red tape, and the trawlers are to cast their nets farther asea.
'Almost the same spot where the trawlers were scuppered, answered Roy. 'Just so. If Fort Hamidieh doesn't open out, we ought really to be all right. We shall be in broader waters. He took out his watch and glanced at its luminous dial. 'In three minutes we shall know one way or the other, he added.
There are also stories of Irish boats and Norwegian trawlers in this work, but I secured no confirmation of such reports. It is still unsettled in British Admiralty circles as to whether the "Audacious" came in contact with a mine or torpedo from a German submarine. Two of her crew report that they saw the wake of a torpedo.
There is a tide here!" the coxswain was warned, lest the barge should get into some of the troubles meant for Fritz. "A cunning fellow, Fritz. We must give him no openings." The openings appear long enough to permit British craft, whether trawlers, or flotillas, or cruiser squadrons, to go and come.
After drifting with the tide for six or seven hours the trawl is hauled up, the marketable fish are picked out, the others thrown away, and the trawl sent overboard for another operation. More than a thousand sail of well-found trawlers are constantly engaged in sweeping the seas around our coast in this way, and it is to them that we owe a very large proportion of our supply of fish.
To-night I'm ready for a thingumbob on 'the blue, the fresh, the ever free. Ah! entrancing! Oh-h-h! bewitching!" Freeman sailed his craft and threaded the lines of the dragging trawlers with stealthy speed. A hail came at last. "Yacht ahoy! Have you still got the doctor aboard?" The weird answer rang amid the shrill treble of the gaffs. "Then come aboard of us if you can. It's bad."
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