FISHERMEN IN WAR TIME 



Peninsula on April 26, and it contained a list of 

 awards for services rendered by the Navy at the 

 Dardanelles. The dispatch showed that in the first 

 landing, north of Gaba Tepe, which was carried out 

 under the orders of Rear-Admiral C. F. Thursby, 

 C.M.G., the squadron included fifteen trawlers; and 

 fourteen trawlers were included in the squadron 

 which carried out the lauding at the southern ex- 

 tremity of the Gallipoli Peninsula, under the orders 

 of Rear-Admiral R. E. Wemyss, C.M.G., M.V.O. 



In the landing of troops, guns and stores under 

 exceptional natural difficulties and an annihilating 

 fire from artillery and machine-guns and rifles, 

 brave work was done by the trawlermen, and the 

 Admiral reported that innumerable deeds of heroism 

 and daring were performed. 



The brief references which had been made to the 

 Floandi were followed in the course of time by one 

 of those official announcements which so often told 

 the tale of noble heroism. The Rear-Admiral com- 

 manding the British naval forces in the Adriatic 

 forwarded to the Admiralty " the wireless telegraph 

 log of H.M. Floandi as an exhibit for the National 

 War Museum " ; and in doing so he gave the fol- 

 lowing facts concerning it : — 



This log was found in this condition in the 

 wireless operating cabin of H.M. drifter Floandi 

 after an attack on the drifter line by three Austrian 

 cruisers in the Adriatic on May 15, 1917. The 

 wireless operator, Douglas Morris Harris, A.B., 

 R.N.V.R., continued to send and receive messages, 



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