Mr A Harman will be on Bideford Quay tomorrow

Mr Albion Harman, joint owner of Lundy, who created something of a national sensation when he admitted having fired shots from the island after a Cornish trawler had moored in the bay, is expected on Bideford Quay tomorrow morning awaiting any outcome of his action.

He said he expected to be there to save the Devon Sea Fisheries Committee the trouble of outfitting a marine expedition.

After Mr D McBurnie, skipper of Quiet Waters, had complained to the committee that several shots had been fired and that one shot had hit the mast of his vessel, Mr Harman made a statement to the Press.

The rights to the fishing in the waters round Lundy belonged to the island, he declared, and had been exercised and successfully guarded until the coming this summer of the Quiet Waters. She had met with the traditional and natural reaction to a poacher and had been fired upon. 

No action is being taken by Devon police over the Lundy incident, Police Supt D C Maynard, Barnstaple, made this clear at the weekend.

The full Gazette article is dated 22 September 1961