. The beam-trawl fishery of Great Britain. Trawls and trawling; Fisheries. LETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 357 posed that they must be swamped in coining alongside, they come on all the same, nol even keeping a lookout, so far as one cau observe, but running in every direction full till onto tbe sbip, and as eacli boat touches, a man watches his chance, and just when the boal rises takes hold of the rail and swarms T it and fairly tumbles â deck, holding one end â long painter in some ither in his hands, under n. or sometimes in his. Kit;. â .'â .'. Boarding Fish. " ITe pick's
. The beam-trawl fishery of Great Britain. Trawls and trawling; Fisheries. LETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 357 posed that they must be swamped in coining alongside, they come on all the same, nol even keeping a lookout, so far as one cau observe, but running in every direction full till onto tbe sbip, and as eacli boat touches, a man watches his chance, and just when the boal rises takes hold of the rail and swarms T it and fairly tumbles â deck, holding one end â long painter in some ither in his hands, under n. or sometimes in his. Kit;. â .'â .'. Boarding Fish. " ITe pick's himself up at once, rushes on to the shrouds or to a belay- ing-pin, takes a turn, and sings out, 'All fast!' and then one of Ins mates in the boat, who has been paying out, hauls short on the painter until he .acts abreast of the waist of the ship or some other part that may be vacant; the men in the boat immediately hand ii|> the boxes one by one, their own man receives them over the rail and tosses them on deck, then puts his delivery note into a basket in the galley, and his work is done. It is the business of each smack to deliver her own cargo on the deck, and no help is given for the purpose, not even in the small matter of making fast a painter or helping in a trunk, and the short time occupied in the operation, as well as the apparent certainty and safety of the whole proceeding, are, to say the least, surprising. Indeed it seems little short of miraculous that in a sea with a rise and fall of quite lb feet some eighty or ninety open boats should be launched over- board, manned and loaded, towed and rowed a considerable distance, brought alongside a vessel, unloaded, brought back, and hoisted on board again without a single accident, yet I saw this done without any- thing approaching to a misadventure, and from the general bearing of all concerned I could observe that there was no anxiety whatever on the ;. Please note that these images are extract
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