What the last 'Cod War' was like, by a veteran reporter
What the last Cod War was like, by a veteran reporter As a young reporter, I was on board HMS Leander in 1975 and saw several hair-raising close shaves between the British and Icelandic boats British and Icelandic naval vessels faced-off in the Cod Wars in the mid-Seventies Credit: Shutterstock Does Britain’s threat of ‘gunboat diplomacy’ stand a better chance of success in saving our fish and protecting our fishermen from France and the EU than we had against Iceland in the ‘Cod Wars�...
Source: telegraph.co.uk