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 expei ienc'es 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 of a syren out at sea similar to distress 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 ba' for a shipwrecked vessel. A large area of. sea 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. Chnstmae| spirit by long blasts on their syrens. ; i ■■ j ""
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21580, 27 February 1932, Page 14
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