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IN one of last winter's gales, an Aberdeen trawler had the misfortune to ship a big sea which half-filled her, put her radio out of action, shifted the coal in the bunkers and gave her a dangerous list. 1 ler crew spent the next forty-eight hours in pumping out water and heaving coal overboard to get her on an even keel. Many other vessels were looking for her all this time, directed by coastal radio stations, but she passed through them and came back to shore.
I came across a report made by the captain
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to the owners, when I was looking for material for a film on ship-shore radio for the Post Office Film Unit. You would have liked their report, because it left everything out but the bare facts.
It appears that these things are always happening. Every time there's a spell of bad weal her, there's always some fishing vessels caught in it. At best they're in a tough spot, and at worst they're very near Kingdom Come.
Often the coastal radio stations are working double shifts for days on end, trying to
keep track of vessels in distress, while the poor fellows on board are suffering God knows what agonies; but so long as the ship gets back safely, they all forget it until the next time, and the rest of us hear nothing about it.
Anyway, it was decided that this incident, since we had an authentic record of it, should be reconstructed in film shape as a storydocumentary of ship-shore radio service, for exhibition along with other Post Office films at the Scottish Exhibition.