Runswick, Yorkshire.—At 5.55 in the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948. a Skinningrove fisherman telephoned that a fishing coble had anchored off Skinningrove with her engine broken down and the motor life-boat Bobert Patton — The Always Ready was launched at 6.25. A very strong west- south-west breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The life-boat found the motor fishing coble Three Brothers, of Middlesbrough, with a crew of two, two and a half miles from the shore.

The weather was getting worse and the life-boat towed the coble to Staithes.

She arrived back at her station at 8.30.

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