Thanet Advertiser September 4th 1915
A fine and justly deserved tribute to the heroism of our fishermen is paid by Lord Selborne in a White Paper recently issued on behalf of the Fisheries Board.
“There is one thing” he says”on which the nation may congratulate itself, one proud record we can hand down to our descendants, and that is the behaviour of all those connected with our fisheries in this great crisis of our race. In the whole epic of heroism which will grow up around this war, there will be nothing finer than the way in which our fishermen have behaved – whether carrying out their natural and lawful vocation or when serving in the Royal Navy and carrying out operations such as that of mine-sweeping, which promise no glory, but the maximum of danger.”