At 11 A.M on the 27th March the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Co-operator No. 1 received a report stating that a fishing coble had had her rudder broken about one mile south of the harbour. It was blowing a whole gale from the West at the time. The boat was launched; she proceeded to the coble and towed her into harbour. The coble was the Hannah Taylor belonging to Cullercoats with three men on board. It appeared that she was coming round from the Tyne and was struck by a squall after clearing the North Pier; fortunately the mast carried away, otherwise the boat would have been capsized, and the men, in all probability, would have been drowned. When the Life-boat took the coble in tow the men on board were in a position of considerable danger..