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Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 8.16 on the morning of the 7th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing coble had run aground at the harbour entrance, and that the coast- guard Life-Saving Apparatus Com- pany had been called out to man the piers. The fishing boat was hauled into the harbour at 9.45, but by this time the wind had freshened. Other fishing boats were still at sea, so at eleven o'clock the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched, with a scratch crew in command of an ex-coxswain. The sea was rough, and a strong breeze was blowing from the south-south-east. The life-boat es- corted all the boats to the harbour in. a flooding tide and returned to the har- bour herself at 1.40. She remained afloat and was rehoused the next morning.—Rewards, £23 105..