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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: Customs Houses – A Visible Expression of Growth and Decline Feb 28, 2021
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: First proposed slipway Feb 25, 2021
  • PE of Yore: Interesting aspects during the Construction of the Harbour Feb 15, 2021
  • The Chances of Surviving Once Hospitalised with Covid are not Good Feb 14, 2021
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Size of the North Jetty Feb 14, 2021
  • PE of Yore: The Mystery of the Town Hall Roof Parapet Feb 11, 2021
  • The J&J Vaccine is not Necessarily the Solution to SA’s Covid Problem Feb 11, 2021
  • The Military Mind Feb 5, 2021
  • The Brazilian Variant Feb 3, 2021
  • Prince Alfred’s Guards: In the Line of Fire Feb 3, 2021
  • Nkandla: What you can build with that money Feb 3, 2021
  • tOS-SARS® Feb 2, 2021
  • The Needle and the Damage Done* Feb 2, 2021
  • Covid and Those Vial Capitalists Feb 2, 2021
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Smoke on the Water Jan 26, 2021
  • Schoenmakerskop: From Mrs. Mac’s Tearoom to the Sacramento Jan 23, 2021
  • Size Matters or Does It? Jan 10, 2021
  • The Year of the Bat: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics Jan 8, 2021
  • Trump’s Last Stand: MAGA-Laager Jan 6, 2021
  • Quo Vadis: Covid-19 Vaccine in South Africa Jan 3, 2021
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Frielinghaus Clan Dec 25, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Visit by Sir George Grey in October 1858 Dec 21, 2020
  • Norman Lovemore: Reminiscences about a Life Well-Lived Dec 18, 2020
  • Biography of Winston Arthur Hutchings Cordingley Dec 16, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Christian Science Church in Park Drive Dec 4, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Park Lodge of Samuel Bain Dec 4, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Architecture of Park Drive – An Overview Dec 4, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Matopos in Park Drive Dec 3, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The “Aloes”, No. 56 Park Drive Dec 3, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Statue of Queen Victoria in Port Elizabeth Dec 1, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: New Brighton – “A Model Native Settlement” Nov 30, 2020
  • Prince Alfred’s Guard: Regimental Colour, Battle Honours and Chantry Chapel Nov 27, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Commercial Hall Building Nov 27, 2020
  • Prince Alfred’s Guard: The Bechuanaland Campaign of 1897 Nov 22, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Buffelsfontein Nov 20, 2020
  • Alex of Yore: The Formative Years Nov 11, 2020
  • The Morning After: Confessions of an Internet News Junkie Nov 7, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The HMS Dorsetshire-First Ship in New Harbour Nov 3, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Spontaneous Combustion of the Mariposa Nov 1, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Cape Recife’s “Mary Celeste” Affair Oct 22, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Fresh Water Swimming Pools Oct 20, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Restoration of Verandah of No 7 Oct 19, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Red Lion Tavern Oct 16, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Railways to the Platteland Oct 15, 2020
  • John Vorster in PE: Three Tumultuous Years Oct 14, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Uitenhage Springs Oct 13, 2020
  • Coronavirus: Democratic vs Republican States Oct 13, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Early Development of Sanitation Oct 11, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The 1968 Flood in Numbers Oct 10, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Changing Face of Happy Valley and Humewood Beach Oct 9, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: A Brief History of Roller Skating Oct 5, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The South Jetty Sep 28, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Slavery and the Dom Pedro Jetty Sep 27, 2020
  • New Brighton: The Case of the Missing Game Birds Sep 26, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The First Inhabitants of Uitenhage Sep 22, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Account of the First Ascent of the Cockscomb Sep 7, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The First Military Fortification Sep 4, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Zwartkopswagendrift Aug 21, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Victorian School in Park Drive Aug 19, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Unsolved Mystery of the Namacurra #Y1506 Aug 18, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: A Description of the Town in 1861 Aug 17, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Early Days of Cycling Aug 15, 2020
  • Life-long effects of viral diseases Aug 15, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: An Allen who Entered the World of Shipping Aug 11, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Two Generations of Master Builders Aug 8, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Railway Line to Humewood and the Driftsands Jul 20, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Mystery Cannons near Schoenmakerskop Jul 1, 2020
  • Saving a person suffering from Covid-19 Jun 29, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Ore Terminal Jun 11, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The S.S. Western Knight-The Death Shriek of a Ship’s Siren Jun 7, 2020
  • Debunking Graham Hancock’s Claims Jun 6, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Thunderbolt Reef claims another Victim Jun 4, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Little-Known Obelisk in Walmer Jun 1, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: The Building Blocks of the First Harbour May 31, 2020
  • Port Elizabeth of Yore: Recollections of the Walmer Train May 30, 2020
  • 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 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: The Paris Maru-The Ship from Osaka 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: The Diocesan Grammar School, 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

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