Advanced Notice of Interim Results

FISHER (JAMES) & SONS PLC
31 August 1999


TO: Company Announcements Office


         James Fisher and Sons Public Limited Company
                               
                        Interim results

I  am  writing to inform you that James Fisher and Sons Public
Limited Company will be announcing interim results for the six
months ended 30 June 1999 on Tuesday 14 September 1999.

Keith Payne
Tavistock Communications PLC