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Author: Derek Frielinghaus

The Face behind Plett’s WW11 NSRI Siren

By Derek Frielinghaus in Other Miscellaneous Topics May 2, 2020 0 Comment

This is the story of how Plettenberg Bay acquired its WW2 Siren

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  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The 1908 Flood per the EP Herald May 24, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Pollok Beach May 22, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Era of the Bandstand May 20, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Hanover House in Bird Street May 20, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Where would pilots from 42 Air School Celebrate? May 14, 2020
  • What happened to the Union Defence Force after 1948? May 10, 2020
  • Cenotaph: A Memorial to The Missing and The Dead May 8, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: When Mohair was a Major Industry May 4, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: A Family’s History through a Writing Desk May 3, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: An Act of Kindness in a Heartless War May 3, 2020
  • The Face behind Plett’s WW11 NSRI Siren May 2, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Tin Hat on the Humewood Promenade May 1, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: War Memorials in Walmer May 1, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: St. Paul’s Church Apr 27, 2020
  • Coronavirus: History Repeats Itself or Does It? Apr 26, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Living Conditions during the First Decades Apr 18, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Captain Moresby of the HMS Menai Apr 15, 2020
  • Nigel’s Chicken Stir Fry in Pictures Apr 14, 2020
  • The Root of all Good and Evil Apr 14, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Worst Plane Crash in PE Apr 13, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Architecture of the Parsonage at No 7 Castle Hill Apr 13, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Cleghorns on Market Square Apr 12, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Artillery Piece in the Market Square Apr 12, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The History of the Van Stadens Area Apr 11, 2020
  • Bridges over the Baakens River and its Mouth Apr 10, 2020
  • Personal Experiences of the Provincial Hospital: The Unkindest Cut Apr 6, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: From Temporary Jetty to Focal Point – The North Jetty Apr 5, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Moorings instead of a Harbour Apr 4, 2020
  • Should the wearing of masks be imperative for all? Apr 3, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The 1905 Grandiose Harbour Scheme That Never Was Apr 3, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: When the Swartkops River almost became a Port Apr 2, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Construction of the Breakwater Apr 1, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Effect of Spanish Flu Mar 30, 2020
  • The Rice Video – Carbon Dioxide in Perspective: Is There a Grain of Truth in What Roberts Has to Say? Mar 19, 2020
  • The economic effect of Covid-19 Mar 19, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The OK Bazaars in Main Street Mar 17, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Sinking of the Japanese freighter ‘Paris Maru’ Feb 15, 2020
  • The Swansong of Quo Vadis and How the Other Half Lives Feb 14, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Van Stadens Pass and Bridges Feb 6, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Roads and Inland Transport from the 1820s to 1860s Feb 2, 2020
  • The Circumcision Genocide: The Unkindest Cut of them all Jan 31, 2020
  • Renewables Footprint to Meet Energy Requirements Jan 30, 2020
  • The Latest Sorry Sordid Secret Saga of Marathon Running Shoes Jan 25, 2020
  • Evaluation of the Rev. Francis McCleland Dec 29, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Impetus for the Separatist League Dec 21, 2019
  • My Draaifontein Great Grandmother: Mary Ann Beckley Dec 3, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Liberty Ship – the Anne Hutchinson Dec 3, 2019
  • History of the Wood’s Family in Port Elizabeth Dec 2, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Draaifontein Farmhouse Nov 28, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Wild and Cantankerous Seaview Nov 10, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: John Parkin – from Humble Beginnings to Property Magnet Nov 8, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Destruction of St. Mary’s Church by Fire in 1895 Nov 7, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: What Happened to the Bell of the Chapman? Nov 6, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Expeditions by Carl Thunberg in the 1770s Nov 3, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The MacArthur Baths Oct 31, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: State of Medical Services in the 1800s Oct 30, 2019
  • Hans Wilhelm Münch: The Nazi who said No Oct 16, 2019
  • Unexpected photos of the Wehrmacht during WW2 Oct 8, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Discovery of the Sacramento Aug 27, 2019
  • The Post Office Could Get Nothing Right Aug 26, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: From School to Synagogue, Then Church to Café Aug 21, 2019
  • Paul Selby’s Back-to-Back Comrades in 1999 Aug 21, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Ushering in Electricity and Lighting Aug 17, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The First Tarred Roads Aug 16, 2019
  • Race report feedback, Run The Track, Dubai (UAE) Autodrome, 16 March 2019 Aug 15, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Korsten – A Subtext for Freedom Aug 14, 2019
  • The End of the World is (ge)Naai Aug 13, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Zwartkops Saltpan Company in 1894 Aug 12, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: My Second Great Uncle’s Reminiscences of the 1870s Aug 11, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Disaster on Christmas Eve Aug 10, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Bethelsdorp – PE’s First Organised Settlement Aug 5, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The 1954 Empire Games’ Marathon Trials Aug 3, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Lawn Tennis Aug 2, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Daredevils of Ballooning and Parachuting Aug 1, 2019
  • Why Eskom is a Basket Case? Jul 31, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: When Developers almost Built on the Donkin Reserve Jul 29, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Third Avenue Dip Jul 29, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Origin of the name Newton Park Jul 27, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Motor Launch Joe Vanishes in Algoa Bay Jul 26, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Saving lives using the Manby Apparatus Jul 26, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Prince Alfred’s Guards Baptism of Fire Jul 26, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: John Owen Smith – Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Jul 23, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Gambia – A Victim of Rescue Bid Jul 21, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Reminiscences of the early Harbour and Town Jul 21, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: St George’s Park, its Creator and its Facilities Jul 18, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The History of the Prince Alfred’s Guard’s Drill Park Jul 17, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: From Sundridge to the Sharley Cribb Jul 15, 2019
  • Horse Memorial: The Humanity of Man Jul 15, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Tragedy of HMS Thunderbolt Jul 15, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Story of the Equestrian War Memorial Jul 15, 2019
  • The Art of Mea Culpa and Conduct Unbecoming Jul 14, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Story of “Knockfierna” in Park Drive Jul 13, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Grey Junior School from Belmont Terrace to College Drive Jul 12, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Blunting the Menace of the Drift Sands Jul 11, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Opening of St. George’s Park Jul 11, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Ford Motor Company Jul 8, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore : Volume 1 – Defying the Odds Jun 5, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Playdon Family Jun 4, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Beach at North End May 27, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Runaway Tram in Russell Road May 24, 2019
  • A Description of Port Elizabeth in 1874 May 19, 2019
  • Lost Artefacts of Port Elizabeth: The 1820 Centenary Memorial Apr 30, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Human Dimension of the 1908 Flood Apr 18, 2019
  • A General Description of Port Elizabeth in 1894 Apr 15, 2019
  • The Cussedness of Inanimate Objects: The Case of a Missing TV Remote Apr 11, 2019
  • Economics and Forecasting the Future Apr 3, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Through the Eyes of the Poulter Family Mar 8, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Fascist Movements and Anti-Semitism Mar 4, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Reclamation at the Harbour Feb 18, 2019
  • Port of Elizabeth: Royal Visit of 1947 Feb 16, 2019
  • YENTA breathlessly chasing mills Feb 14, 2019
  • Eskom: What really Happened? Feb 14, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Hobie Beach. From a misnomer to a sobriquet Feb 11, 2019
  • Bruno: A Gobby in the Lobby Feb 6, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Khoi and San – The First Inhabitants Jan 29, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Kragga Kamma Jan 28, 2019
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The First Official South African Cricket Test Jan 2, 2019
  • John Dunn: Part 1 – Background to the Bondelswarts People & the SAC Dec 3, 2018
  • John Dunn: Part 5 – Through a Desert Wonderland to Kalkfontein Nov 28, 2018
  • John Dunn: Part 4 – Unspeakable Cruelty to the Donkeys Nov 27, 2018
  • John Dunn: Part 3 – From Port Nolloth to Steinkopf Nov 23, 2018
  • John Dunn: Part 2 – The Journey by Sea Nov 22, 2018
  • Lost in the Mists at Magoebaskloof Oct 23, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: From Sandy Hills to Tent Town to Sandy Hills Once Again Oct 12, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The First Dam Oct 11, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The First Sources of Water Oct 10, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Market Square used as a Market Oct 7, 2018
  • Quo Vadis: The Future of Main Street Oct 5, 2018
  • A.J. Montgomery: Part 10 – Life after the 10th Hussars Sep 22, 2018
  • A.J. Montgomery: Part 1 – Enlistment and Training with the 10th Hussars Sep 22, 2018
  • A.J. Montgomery: Part 9 – Through the Cape Colony hunting the Cape Rebels Sep 21, 2018
  • A.J. Montgomery: Part 8 – Mounted Infantry Actions in the Eastern Transvaal Sep 21, 2018
  • A.J. Montgomery: Part 7 – From the Vaal to the Battle of Diamond Hill Sep 18, 2018
  • A.J. Montgomery: Part 6 – Skirmishes through the Free State to the Vaal Sep 17, 2018
  • A.J. Montgomery: Part 5 – The Deadly Ambush at Sanna’s Post Sep 16, 2018
  • A.J. Montgomery: Part 4 – The Relief of Kimberley Sep 16, 2018
  • A.J. Montgomery: Part 3 – Baptism of Fire at the Battle of Colesberg Sep 14, 2018
  • AJ Montgomery: Part 2 – Survivor of the SS Ismore Ship Wreck in 1899 Sep 12, 2018
  • CO2 Emissions: Glimmer of hope? Aug 26, 2018
  • Quo Vadis: NDE, LBJs & other TLAs Aug 26, 2018
  • Estina Dairy Farm: The World’s Greatest Business Plan Aug 16, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: A Pictorial History of Willows Aug 14, 2018
  • Janine McCleland: A Celebration of Her Life Jul 30, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Birth of the Standard Bank Jul 20, 2018
  • Mill Wheels Grinding: The Orphans Jul 18, 2018
  • Mill Wheels Grinding – The Crumpled Mill, Mansfield Jul 16, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Periodic Visitations by the Irascible Rain God Jul 12, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: One Not-So-Fine-Day in September 1869 in Algoa Bay Jul 9, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The First Account of Algoa Bay Jul 8, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The 1905 Floods in the Gamtoos Valley Jul 6, 2018
  • Mill Wheels Grinding: Lost in Clumber Jul 5, 2018
  • Lost Artefacts of Port Elizabeth: Cradock Place Jul 4, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Museum and Snake Park Jul 3, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: How Passengers were Loaded onto Ships Jul 2, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Match Manufacturing Jul 1, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: John Paterson vs PE Municipality in 1863 Jul 1, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Woolwasheries, the First Industry Jun 29, 2018
  • Mill Wheels Grinding: Pyott’s Mill Jun 29, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Saga of the Obelisk Jun 29, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Port Elizabeth 160 Years Ago Jun 27, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Cape Mounted Police Jun 25, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: King’s Beach over the Years Jun 24, 2018
  • Mill Wheels Grinding Part 2: Cock’s Mill Jun 24, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Acrimonious Rivalry between Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth in the 1860s Jun 22, 2018
  • Mill Wheels Grinding Jun 21, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Old Gamtoos River Bridge Jun 21, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Mackay Bridge over the Sunday’s River Jun 20, 2018
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Beach Hotel Jun 19, 2018
  • Lesoba Hike June 2018: A Series of Firsts for the Quo Vadis Hiking Club Jun 18, 2018
  • A Third World Solution to Refuse Recycling Jun 14, 2018

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