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Heroes and Rebel in the Family Tree--Herbert Alonzo Strowger and the troubled crewmen.

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  SATURDAY— MARCH 1932 FIGHT IN SHIP AT ELLESMERE PORT CAPTAIN KNOCKED DOWN SPANNER THREAT TO OFFICERS STRUGGLE ON BRIDGE ELLESMERE PORT,   Today. Herbert Lawn, fireman, and Jacob Tattersall, greaser, in s.s. Shirban, [an oil tanker] were accused at Ellesmere Port today of unlawfully attacking and impeding the captain and assaulting the chief engineer and chief officer. They are also accused of disobeying lawful commands on the ship. The two men pleaded not guilty to all charges with the exception of the one relating to the assaulting of the Chief Officer, to which they pleaded they were under great provocation.   According to George Strong, chief engineer on s.s. Shirban, a benzine vessel laid up at Stanlow Oil Dock, Ellesmere Port, at 20.30 last night while in his room he heard an argument going on in the room of the fourth engineer. George Strong went out saw Lawn and Tattersall objecting to their watch, when he inquired the cause of the troubl...
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  6 January 2023 Written by John Worrall Herring’s French Connection For three decades, the East Anglian herring fishery’s highest accolade was the award of the Prunier Trophy.   It was a mix of marketing ploy and revival strategy. Madame Simone Prunier was the daughter and granddaughter of restaurateurs who, in turn, ran their famous Paris establishment and, in turn, died young, so that in 1935, at the tender age of 22, she found herself running the show. But she and her husband more than rose to the challenge. They branched out by opening in London’s St James’ Street. There she heard of the parlous state of the East Anglian herring industry. Catches, though still substantial, had been in steady decline since the pre-First World War peak, as the increased efficiency of steam and then diesel power ate into stocks. More particularly, tastes had changed. The ‘king of fish’ – oily, nutritious and much rated by gourmands for its versatility and, on the Continent,...