DANGEROUS VOYAGE
F the many odd, semi- | private ventures to which the last war lent itself, the service run hy small, armed fishing-boats between the Shetlands and occupied Norway has been one of the least publicised. Yet, in five years, it secretly landed 200 agents and 400 tons of stores, and rescued 350 refugees, all across the North Sea during the long nights of winter. In The Shetland Bus (from 1YC and 1YA) the BBC Scottish studios dramatised a welldeserved tribute to it. The story centred on a single typical voyage, in which the little vesse] made a successful crossing and was spotted on the way back. After a battle against two German planes, the crew-four of them seriously woundedtook to their leaking dinghy, reached Norway again, were hidden by the underground, and finally rescued by a fast MTB. The telling was admirably straightforward, with neither false heroics or stiff-upper-lip. Sound effects -particularly the putter of the boat’s single-stroke engine-were all the more effective for being sparing; and Scottish voices substituted acceptably for the | ‘Scandinavian.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 10
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175DANGEROUS VOYAGE New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 10
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