ANOTHER SKIPPER'S V.C. 



Nelson, shot-torn, foundered. As to the skipper's 

 request of " Throw me overboard," there instinc- 

 tively comes to mind the earnest wish of Nelson at 

 Trafalgar that his body should not be cast into I 

 se a . 



Skipper Watt in the Adriatic had opened the list 

 of fishermen Y.C.'s ; Skipper Crisp was soon to 

 share the glory with him, though only as a memory, 

 and these two heroes were doubtless but the advance 

 guard of a noble band of sweepers, patrols and 

 drifters who were to join the rigidly limited ranks 

 of recipients of the greatest honour that a soldier or 

 a sailor can gain. 





