I don't think it would be difficult to show (from TV and press reports) that the original protest on 3/3/61 involved more than just a few kayakers : I'm absolutely certain that there will be print and video evidence of onshore activity, either marching or sitting.

You are probably right GUEST Anne, but none of them would have been Jim McLean or any of his pals as he himself drew our attention to the fact that none of them went down there until AFTER Proteus had moored up. The photograph he draws attention to was taken, according to him, on the 4th March, 1961.

IF Laning made any reference to any protesters in terms of them just being Goddam Eskimos then he was NOT referring to Jim McLean and his pals, so why did McLean and said pals feel they had any right to appropriate name - they after all had done nothing to deserve it as all the work and all the risk had been taken by others.

The Eskimo Republic? Another braggarts chant by the sound of it.

As for "The Glesga Eskimos", if indeed - the song is still very much alive and kicking, still being sung, by the likes of Danny Couper, Ewan McVicar, Alastair McDonald and other less famous people in plenty of song sessions in Scotland. - all I can say is that I have never heard them, or anybody else do so. Going through "The Eskimo Republic Song Book" the songs therein are dated, naive, puerile, pathetic and all a bit sad really.