Transport: Girl Pat

"I want you to get me right from the start, and no misunderstandings. I'm no Captain Bligh. But I'm no harbour loafer either. I'm a man who's sailed the North Sea in 50 storms. . . . Who's looked death in the face many a time without hatting an eye. So you'll realise that I'm not sticking out my chest and bawling just because I've managed to get across from Grimsby to British Guiana in the Girl Pat."

Ever since last June, when the truant British trawler Girl Pat, whose crew ran away...

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