“The gold work was quite impressive,” he said. Gardner’s interest was also piqued by a family crest, a Latin inscription, and the initials of the owner, RDMC. The crest, a hand holding a dagger and a ...

NoneThe Chisholm clan, whose centuries-old motto was I am fierce with the fierce, was a family of farmers, loggers and earth-movers. Mechanical competence was considered a necessity of life. So at age ...

March 1945 I joined the "Clan Chisholm" as Fourth Officer. She was loading in Glasgow for India. Although the war had ended in Europe we still sailed on convoy.