Fishing Cobles (2)
STAITHES.—On the llth January, about fifty of the Staithes cobles were out, when a gale from the N. suddenly sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea. The Hannah Somerset Life-boat went off to their aid, and accompanied most of them to the shore. The sea, however, increased, and as it was considered dangerous for the remaining seven cobles to attempt to land at Staithes they were advised to run for Bunswick, and they therefore made for that place..