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I Met Skipper Orsborne

THE Girl Pat captured! Millions have read about her amazing voyage, but little has been told about hor amazing skipper.

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I met George Orsborno last summer. On July 25 two friends and I were returning from Norway in our small cutter, the Star-Song. Of Cape Wrath, the weather came on thick, with half a gale from the south- west.

We turned back and put into Loch Ertboll, anchoring nt Port Nan Con-the Haven of the Dogs. It was as well we did. By Friday night it was blowing a gale off the Cape.

About midnight on Friday the trawler Osaka came in for shelter and anchored in the fairway. We were glad of company as we had been the only bont in the loch.

On Baturday morning we went nshore for provisions. When we returned we found that the Osaku hind moored alongside our craft.

We went aboard to pay our compliments to the skipper, and met him. George Desborne, Orsborne of the Girl Pat. This was not the old sea-dog we expected, but a young fellow like ourselves-only a real fallor, Thirty-one years old, lean, strong, hospitable, generous, fluent bi the racy idiom of the tea and already the father of eight children,

Ile was familiar with nearly every rock and channel on the coast of Scotland, aud in high standing with the owners bc- cause of him record catches. He called It luck-but his crew knew better.)

Out came tobated and cider impre about this laters nnd we got Lo Yarning. Before We WHIT! through, we realised that we had inet an uncommon man. And not because of the facts of his expert- ence, exclling as they were, but because of his way of looking at them.

He had lind early training for the ordeal of the trawlers. Aud If you would like to know what that ordeal can be, talk to any fisher- man who has been to Cape Farr- well in winter or to the Bear Island Bank.

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AS Orsborne was fling our glasses, he apologised for not having some thereal stuff" aboard. It seems that on a previous voyage his de- parture was delayed, and he had opened the bonded locker befor he had cleared port, The Excise Offeer come aboard again, found this out, and withdrew the permit.

Bo we invited kin atil the mate aboard the Star-Song, and with the wind howling outside and the anchor holding, carried on yar, punctuating them with non- cins of highland dew,

our

Ho admired the Star-Song hin- Just a litrin bit, bigger mensely,

and she would fulßf every apexifi- cation of the buat he wanted for his roving commission round the world. He'd make that trip yet-a few more paying voyages, then up with the anciwe.

Admittedly our slent to Norway was a stout adventure, but had we ever heard of his single-handed passage? No? Well, he was really Sutherlandshire man, and he was once sent to sell a row at the market in ttle village on the

-To-day's Thought INSULTS are "The "Vad volni;

he cannot help their belie ofered to us, but we need not. fake them.

-C. II. SPURGEON.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY

SKIPPER

OF A FISHING BOAT ......

•No

160

George Black Orsborne-

having complied with the renibtions under which Certificates" of Compciency are" granted to Skippers of Fishing, Bontea

This Certificate is to the effect fint he is competent to act as Skipper of a Fishing Bent, and "authorizes him to act in, that capacity,

BY

REGISTI

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Here is the Skipper's cer tificate and the man himself -"a young fellow like our selves, only a real sailor."

West Const. With the money he bought an old twenty-foot open bont with a big lug sail. Naturally he wished to try her, and since the wind was favourable he just sailed on-round Cape Wrath. It was bitterly cold, he had neither coat nor oilskin, and he was hungry.

Right through the Pentland Firth he went, without compass, and I was showing no heavily at times that I had to take off his shirt and wring the water from it.

Again the wind was favourable, so he held on down the count. Cold and hunger and mist--and a lucky Providener perhaps drove hin atore Somewhere near Berwieft, where he was given tuod. Then he mulled on t he landed at Grlinsby.

daft.

"Dearle met. They thought I was

Any other

We were astounded, man would have been drowned. But what other man would have al- templed that voyage 7

That trip round the world $hough, just n little bit bbger ... what adventures... he had heard men say . . .*

"A trawler man's We was a dog's Ufc. Eh, Harry?"

they Bear

BETWEEN them told 185 of the Island fishing. The trawi contes abnard; a cod Jumps out of the bag, gives one flop on the deck and freezes stiff. And the

Klanced up and saw one man with his knife fa calfish. Catfish were few in those waters,

Five minutes later I lookett, up again," sak the mate, and there was the same man with a catfish, he's not another catfish," I Funny

thought. "And, blow me. 1 when I looked up again about 10 minutes later, he didn't still have a cutfish, Would ps believe me, I was the same catfish. The man had goi holl of the sing houk, fastenvil it behind him this belt, and was getting a good sleep on his

TOWARDS midnight we went aboard the Osaku again, Orsborne Whhed

to calf in the skipper of the Zrono another trawler of the same fre on the wireless telephone to give it arbet reports and exchango fislimit news. The Arimo was fish- In the Greenland banks,

You who when turning the radio dial at home, have sometimes paused to think of the mande at your user tips, would have been thrilled watching Orsborne at the levers and dials that night, pirk-

tary boat 00 miles away in the

with Arctic and talking

her skipper.

Orshorne made contact. Flashes of his conversation, which was car-

fish-must-bleed when caught.ing out, not a station, but a roll-

There was one time when the entire crew had been at it for over two days and nights without a break. An the crew were cleaning hal, Harry Stone, the nate,

Where Complexions are

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TAW and again we read that a film stor has insured her lashes, her leyes. or just her general good looks for hundreds of pounds. What responsibility for beauty speriadht who supplies that film star's cosmeties! Suppose There were something wrong with wie aut of a million preparations, and that marred the beauty of one of Hollywood's loveliest actresses, Pure Cosmetics

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Bat Hollywood take care Uat this shall not happen. In the laboratory where the cosmeties of nearly every film star are made, extraordinary precautions are taken to ensure the purity of the preparations.

Priceless

How Hollywood Cares for the Film Stars' Skin

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Here two milljun lipsticks are made

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One of the

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A GENERAL OF SHIPPING AND SEAMEN

time in the laboratory. Evorg serap of raw material which conur in is tested time and time again for um- yurit

toded, in rient:fe wars which the average person can hardly begin to understand,

The exsupefans made by the man wla Hollywood's greatest beauty spendist age so regulated that they uit the ons of nine husfired and

ut of every uirety-nine

thousand Women. The old one may, for some rensem, find that her hin reacts un- favourably so, perhage, the indelible

in a year, and twenty thousand lipstick which is a necessity on the pounds of powder in a day. Yet, serven. If an experts gather round hardly

worker's hand her, examine, experiment, consult; touch the preparation--everything is theu special lipstick is prolved, mixed and made by machinery. When unde up do n formala, which her skin bands nennt be used, sterilised gloves, agéepts.

Are Worn.

Now mulagnin the film world makes a big deinand on its unke-up Every jar, every container used is

it Jassen through genius. One of the must exacting sterilised as

was for a screen make-up which would twenty-five feet of apparatus..

Twelve chemists, each one with an stay put under water. assistant, and four doctors work full covered and supplied.

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rled on like a cliant, come back to mg;.

"ELLO-ELLO-ELLO-ELLO — ERIMO. We've a nasty breeze round here and have come to Ertboll till it fines Away. Yes, Bill. it's blowing like the hammers of hell round this quarter. I don't know how you've had 12.

"The market is all right, Bil. The market is good, Bl. If you've got anything, you'd better come in.

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Orsborne The whiering ended, pulled the lever back, put down his earphones, and sat down.

It was late. The mate turned in. We suggested dolug the same, but happily Orshorne wouldn't hear of it. He preferred in gara.

He told as there were two Ibis

One that he'd like to do.

WAS

to get & boat ike ours, only a

bit farger, and no. on commission

Ocean,

011

the

toving Western

With three or four men," he sald, "and if I couldn't get theru, I'd go alon

What would you do?"

Look for new grounds and do a blt of treasure hunting."

We talked about that for a time. An kiva Hat would have seement visionary from anyone else pets? almost practieud from him.

We asked him what the other

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DONALD GILLIES

thing was that he would like to

do.

•To Rail nn open boat to America."

Aloite?".

Yes. The trouble with most Adlord who, try long passngen is physical condition, They're all ruit for a 24-hour blow; then they etack. A good gale lasts longer. The kind of training you need for that job is work like ours. three-day, stretch is easy, any of these fishermen could do it if they had a mind.”

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Yes.

That was a telting point with na, It our WWII boat hadn't been tougher than we were, neither sho nor we might have seen Eribol. But a small open boat-3,000 miles-alone-Isn't It practically impossible?"

"No." Gald Orsberne qutle

earnestly, tempted it."

"Several have

al-

WE saw him last on the Monday, and his final Keature was like his first. The weather had moderated. We were anxious to get to sea, Dressed na to take a tow out of the Loch to get an ofte for Cape Wrath. With a long warp out and his engines slowed down to a erizing pace, we moved out.

But tide, the sens were s hhh, and when our samson jaist stupped at dock levr) we cut the war, shouted goodbye, and began te pit abort. Orborne

Wha wavlist. Tempo bark with you," he shouted. 1: took a lot of signalling to dis-

de lin.

When he saw that we were in t, he put on power, and the

cho moved off, dipping to Bie swell. We turned back, feeling que and fune-ly

H was good company. And It 1-1 treh tar certalis treasurer has abad to a way he didn't dream of, It puter more of us disappointed the law.

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amongst whom were a number of girls from the Tsun Kwong School, Czaton, where the deceased had been student. The chief

mourners word the bereaved parents, brothers and

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