FRENCH [BOATS] ARRESTED

At Killybegs Petty Sessions on Monday, 10th October 1921, Mr Byrne, the Officer of Customs and Excise, charged Jean Yves Kergrouch, master of the Lugger, Marie des Anges, and Jules Maria Meleree, master of the Lugger, Turenne, that they did fish in the neighbourhood of Killybegs, within the exclusive fishery limits of the British Isles.  The Luggers were arrested off Malinbeg by H.M. ship Newark. Lobsters were discovered on board; a boat was seen returning to the Turenne, loaded with crab pots.  The Court fined the captain of each Lugger £5, with £5 costs, and ordered that the lobster and crab pots of each vessel be forfeited.

(The HMS Newark was an armed twin-screw minesweeper, built by A & J. Inglis on the Clyde, and launched in June 1918)

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