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Pioneer

TO THE HELP OF A COBLE Flamborongh, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the weather became bad while the local fishing coble Pioneer was at sea, andat 11.55 the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched in a freshening easterly wind and a rough sea. She found the coble about three miles east-north-east of the life-boat station. She had just completed haul- ing her gear. The life-boat escorted her to the harbour arriving back at her station at 2.15 in the afternoon.— Rewards, £16 6*..