DRIFTER MEN OF THE ROYAL NAVY. SEPTEMBER 1941, ON BOARD DRIFTERS AT SCAPA. THOUSANDS OF PEACETIME FISHERMEN WORK AS DRIFTER MEN WITH THE ROYAL NAVY. THE ENTIRE TRANSPORT OF PERSONNEL, OF FOOD SUPPLY AND OF MAIL TO WARSHIPS AT ANCHOR ARE CARRIED OUT BY THE DRIFTER MEN. THEY ALSO SERVE OUTLANDISH STATIONS WHERE ARMY AND AIR FORCE PERSONNEL UNITS ARE STATIONED MILES AWAY FROM ANYWHERE. AT SCAPA THERE WERE NEARLY 200 DRIFTERS ON THE BOOKS AND OVER 1000 MEN. - One of the best known of the drifters in the harbour, the FLORA FRASER, coming in for lunch. She is famous because her skipper, seen leaning
DRIFTER MEN OF THE ROYAL NAVY. SEPTEMBER 1941, ON BOARD DRIFTERS AT SCAPA. THOUSANDS OF PEACETIME FISHERMEN WORK AS DRIFTER MEN WITH THE ROYAL NAVY. THE ENTIRE TRANSPORT OF PERSONNEL, OF FOOD SUPPLY AND OF MAIL TO WARSHIPS AT ANCHOR ARE CARRIED OUT BY THE DRIFTER MEN. THEY ALSO SERVE OUTLANDISH STATIONS WHERE ARMY AND AIR FORCE PERSONNEL UNITS ARE STATIONED MILES AWAY FROM ANYWHERE. AT SCAPA THERE WERE NEARLY 200 DRIFTERS ON THE BOOKS AND OVER 1000 MEN. - One of the best known of the drifters in the harbour, the FLORA FRASER, coming in for lunch. She is famous because her skipper, seen leaning out of the wheelhouse, is a VC. Joe Watt is his name and he earned his VC in the last war, when as a skipper of drifter he engaged three Austrian Cruisers, and although he and the other drifters with him were blown sky high the cruisers were delayed long enough for our fleet to catch up
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