Fishing Cobles
WHITBY.—Several fishing cobles were returning home on the morning of the 18th March when the sea rapidly rose and rendered it highly dangerous for the boats to cross the bar. Two of them had very narrow escapes of broaching-to and being swamped by the heavy seas. At 11.30 the Life-boat Robert and Mary Ellis was taken out and remained in attendance on the other cobles until they succeeded in getting safely into the harbour..