COBLE BROKEN DOWN Amble, Northumberland.—At 1.50 in the afternoon of the 15th of Decem- ber, 1947, the coastguard reported a fishing coble burning flares three miles south-east of Hauxley Point. The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at 2.10 in a light northerly wind with a moderate swell, found the coble True Vine with her engine broken down, and towed her in, arriving back at 2.40.—Rewards, £8..