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Starboard broadside view of S.S. BRIGHTSIDE, about 1936.

ss BRIGHTSIDE (476gt). Built 1930. This Middlesbrough coaster ran aground on rocks off Hackley Head, Aberdeenshire, on 24 April 1949 in thick fog. The nine crew members got away in the lifeboat and were picked up by the drifter NOONTIDE three hours later and landed at Aberdeen.She was not regarded as a total loss until 25 September 1949. Before abandoning ship the Brightside’s master, Captain J.W. Hopper of Sunderland, sounded the siren for assistance. It jammed and brought Collieston Coastguards and the Life Saving Brigade hastening to the cliff top. Unable to see the coaster because of the thick fog, they aimed rope-carrying rockets in the direction from which the noise of the siren was coming. For a few minutes the fog lifted and they saw one line had fallen across the ship. They then realised that the crew had managed to get away.