PHANTOM WRECK COMEDY.
SYREN BLASTS OF JOY. Lifeboatmen and fishermen in the Filey Bay district of Yorkshire were on Boxing Day recounting with a smile the experiences of some of their colleagues who spent the early hours of Christmas Day searching for a phantom wreck created by the spirit of Christmas. Long blasts on a syren out at sea similar to disress signals, sent lifeboatmen, fishermen, and the rocket life-saving brigade scurrying to the coastguard station. Four motor cobles put out to sea while the coastguards rocket crew and fishermen searched along the coast, exploring every bay for a ship-wrecked vessel. A large area of soa was searched by motor boats, but nothing was found. A message was eventually received from Scarborough that two trawlers had left the harbour about the time of the first alarm and had been giving expression to the Christmas spirit by long blasts on their syrens.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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151PHANTOM WRECK COMEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21112, 20 February 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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