Recent History

[gladybill]

Does anyone remember the story of the Girl Pat in the Thirties

[MustafaTickl]

Yes!

And this extract shows how we used to speak;

"At Tenerite ... an elderly native came sidling up to me. ... He started to praise his daughter and�well, although to me she was only some sort of a dark-skinned female out of Africa, my gorge rose and I socked him one and left him something to think about British seamen!"

It was another world!

[gladybill]

Girl Pat was a fishing boat i think.

[MustafaTickl]

The Girl Pat was a brand new trawler which was stolen from Grimsby in 1936 by Captain George Black Osbourne and a crew of three. It next appeared at Devil's Island, took on supplies and left. Captain Osbourne and his merry men then indulged in a number of Bulldog Drummond type exploits around Georgetown, British Guiana, then, under threat of arrest, escaped along the coast of Venezuela where the Girl Pat was rammed. The Captain and his crew were freed from arrest in Venezuela, reboarded the damaged Girl Pat and vanished. Later in the same year the Girl Pat was found sunk and irreparably damaged near Nassau. What happened to the Captain and his crew is not known so far as I know.

[gladybill]

Many thanks for the real story