On the 27th September three fishing cobles, belonging to Cullercoats, while returning from fishing about 9 o'clock in the morn- ing, were unable to cross the bar, owing to the heaviness of the sea. The wind was blowing from the east at the time, and the crew of the Life-boat Palmerston, being apprehensive of an accident, at once put off in their boat to the assistance of the cobles, the crews of which, how- ever, reached the shore in safety, one of the boats having a very narrow escape from being swamped..