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paralysed and one of the nation's important food sources 

 had been stopped. 



Two men were lying dead, others were seriously in- 

 jured ; many were suffering from shock ; yet on board the 

 attacking warships not an individual had been so much 

 as scratched by hostile fire. No one can tell, however, 

 what were the feelings of the admiral who was responsible 

 for the outrage, and who must have known before he 

 left the fishing-area how terribly he had blundered. 



One trawler, the Crane, was sunk ; her skipper, 

 Henry Smith, and her boatswain, William Arthur 

 Leggett, were slain ; six men, William Smith, John 

 Nixon, Harry Hoggart, Arthur Rea, Albert A. Almond, 

 and John Ryder, were wounded, Hoggart being per- 

 manently incapacitated. Skipper Whelpton, of the 

 trawler Mino, was so severely shaken that he died six 

 months later. Five trawlers, the Mino, the Moulmein, 

 the Gull, the Snipe, and the Majestic, were damaged by 

 shot, while other vessels were damaged by the explosion 

 of shells close to them. In several cases trawl ing-gear 

 was lost or damaged. 



These were the bare and startling facts that were 

 made known at Hull on the Sunday afternoon following 

 the outrage. The shot-riddled Mino reached the port, 

 bearing the bodies of the two men who had been killed in 

 the Crane before she foundered. Other crippled trawlers 

 came in from the Dogger, bringing the wounded with 

 them ; but the uninjured craft remained at sea and, as 

 soon as they could do so, resumed their ceaseless work. 



The cannonading, amazing and incredible, gave an 

 opportunity for the display of that unostentatious 

 heroism which is inseparable from North Sea fishing. 



