The participation by the Faroe Islands, its seamen and fishing - TopicsExpress



          

The participation by the Faroe Islands, its seamen and fishing vessels, is well known. The Faroese fishing vessels, including the many smacks such as the above vessel, carried fish from the Faroe Islands and Iceland (their own catches or fish from other local fishing vessels) to Scotland and England all the war years. The weekly landings throughout the war years were approx. 8,000 cwts. equivalent to 1.3 million fish suppers. This effort by the Faroese fishing vessels did not go unnoticed by your Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who is reported as having stated, "that what that small nation has done in supplying the British housewife with fish for her larder, would never be forgotten".
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:53:55 +0000

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