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Ever since last June, when the truant British trawler Girl Pat, whose crew ran away with her on All Fools' Day, was finally nabbed at Georgetown, British Guiana (TIME, June 8, 22 & 29), England has been kept atwitter by a series of Rover-Boys-at-Sea personal accounts by the Girl Pat's doughty Skipper George Black ("Dod") Orsborne spreadeagled across the pink pages of London's sensational Sunday newspaper The People. Other excerpts...
British authorities at Nassau last week heard that a wrecked trawler had just been found on lonely Samana Cay, 300 miles southeast. At once they leaped to the conclusion that the wreck was the mysterious Girl Pat, brand new trawler which ran away from Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, on All Fools' Day and, after lurid adventures, was last reported fortnight ago off Guiana (TIME, June 8 & 22). Before they could investigate, the Girl Pat turned up safely at Georgetown, British Guiana...
...papers. At once the four men yanked down their distress signal, hoisted sail, made off toward the South American coast. There every ship and port at once set eager watch for her, for the Lorraine Cross radioed that the shy Margaret Harold was really the motor trawler Girl Pat which ran away from Great Grimsby on the Humber, England, on All Fools' Day, was outlawed by Lloyd's and was last seen at Dakar, French West Africa, three weeks ago (TIME, June...
Last April 1 Marstrand Fishing Co. at Grimsby ordered Captain George Black Osborne and a crew of four to "test the engines" of Girl Pat, a brand new 130-ton motor trawler with auxiliary sail. Once outside the harbor, Girl Pat made a beeline for the south. Two days later she put in at Dover, dropped the engineer, picked up another, set out again at once. On April 12 she appeared at Corcubion, Spain, badly damaged by storms. Going ashore, the crew had her repaired, bought $1,175 worth of provisions, sent the bill to the owners at Grimsby...
Year ago the Murray trustees completed plans for the John Murray Expedition. Last August the Mabahiss, 140-ft. trawler lent by the Egyptian Government, nosed out of an Alexandria dock, slipped through the Suez Canal, down the length of the Red Sea, finally emerged into the Indian Ocean. An echo-recording apparatus in the chartroom measured the time required for the sound to bounce back from the sea floor. With echo-sounding gear Expedition Leader R. B. Seymour Sewell and his staff systematically charted the ocean floor. In the Gulf of Aden they found ten ranges of theretofore unknown submarine...