Long shot
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 11:59 am
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.
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.