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NO ENGINE, BUT ONE OAR Flamborough, Yorkshire. — At about 4.25 on the afternoon of the 10th of January, 1948, the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station telephoned that a fishing coble appeared to have broken down off Flamborough Head. The motor life- boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched at 4.45 in a fresh south- easterly breeze, with a heavy ground swell, and found the local fishing coble Pioneer, with her engine broken down and her crew of three trying to make headway with one oar. She towed them to the North Landing and arrived back at her station at 5.30.—Rewards, £15 145. 6d..