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Three Fishing Cobles and a Pilot Coble

WHITBY.—At noon on the 20th April, daring calm weather and a heavy sea, three fishing cobles and » Hartlepool pilot coble, the latter with only one man on board, were observed making for Whitby Harbour. It was considered unsafe for them to enter on account of the heavy seas breaking on the bar, and the No. 1 Life-boat Sobert and Mary Silts was therefore launched and supplied the crews of the cobles with cork jackets. The fishing boats then succeeded in entering the harbour; but the pilot eobfe refused the assistance of the Life-boat and proceeded South under canvas..