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A 19th century Mezzotint by J Martin imagines a nocturnal scene with saurians and sea creatures fighting each other in the water. Thirty feet long with two huge paws and a giant tail, the creature raised itself out of the water and slithered around the tiny fishing boat. Skipper Alexander Mearns had piloted his little vessel, King, on countless trips off the north-east coast in search of herring. But he had seen nothing like this before. Mearns was a well-known figure among the bustling fleet of local herring boats and regarded as “one of the most intelligent of the Ferryden fishermen”.