Newbiggin, Northumberland. — At 10.15 on the morning of the 16th of Sep- tember, 1954, the coxswain reported that the weather was worsening and that three fishing cobles were at sea. The coastguard stated that one of them was heading south, but that one of the others had broken down. At 11.5 the life-boat Richard Ashley was launched.

The sea was rough, and there was a strong westerly breeze. The life-boat searched in an ebb tide, found the coble Louisa Twyzell one and a half miles north of Church Point and escorted her in. The life-boat then put off a second time, towed in the other coble, the John and Margaret, and reached her station again at 1.30.

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