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Boy's Own

Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1958, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that two local fishing cobles were at sea. As the weather was deteriorating, the life-boat Friendly Forester was launched at three o'clock in a rough sea. There was a strong south-easterly wind and a flood tide.

The life-boat found the fishing coble Boy's Own a mile and a half east- north-east of Flamborough and es- corted her to harbour. By then the second coble had also reached the harbour, and the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 4.15. Rewards to the crew, £6 ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £13 4s..