Bring Home The Beacon

Just A Dry Run Today, Skipper

Investigators found themselves all at sea when they picked up a signal from ship's emergency beacon - from the middle of dry land in Belfast. The distress signal was tracked by investigators in Belfast among a mountain of old fridges and television sets in a scrap metal yard at Queen's Island. The beacon had been activated after it was dismantled from the vessel and dumped in the scrapyard.

FOOTNOTE: Was it the pre-Christmas sails?