Long shot

[52D]

52A and i have been discussing an incident that has a slight railway connection, when we were both children our parents took us for picnics to the same beach independently of each other, Cocklawburn in Northumberland a few miles south of Berwick. Both sets of parents related the same story of a ship being grounded offshore and the coastguard being alerted by the signalman at nearby Scremerston who had heard the ships siren sounding.
52A had been barking up the wrong tree as in the telling the ships name had been slightly changed and he couldnt find out anything about the incident, he mentioned it to me and i was able to point him in the right direction and even lately have been able to point him to some footage of the incident. He thought the ships name was Wrasse but it actually is Rask.
There was a happy ending as the ships crew was rescued by breeches bouy.
Can anyone add anything else to this incident.

[Bill Bedford]

There was a happy ending as the ships crew was rescued by breeches bouy.
Can anyone add anything else to this incident.

There are slightly confused details of the ship at the bottom of this page http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/rask.html and an account of the rescue here http://www.wix.com/berwick/rnli -> history page 36

[52D]

Bill thanks for the links i have seen the first one but my pc does not like the second one. I have enclosed a link to the footage i found and can confirm that the Rask in our case is an ex Kil class.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=49121

[Bill Bedford]

Bill thanks for the links i have seen the first one but my pc does not like the second one.

Neither did mine...
Basically it said the the lifeboat put to sea in the gale, and was nearly up-ended getting out of the harbour. They couldn't get close to the ship because of the swell, but stood by until the men had been taken off. They then couldn't get back into Berwick, tried Eyemouth, but failed to get in again and finally made Dunbar about 2 in the afternoon.

[52D]

One of the Berwick Lifeboat men, Ted Lough, who went to the rescue of the Rask and who later became Cox of the boat is featured here holding a Salmon. http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tyne/hi/peo ... 572423.stm