Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 11.52 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing coble Thankful II had broken down four miles north of Seaham. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched at 12.25 at low water in a moderate to strong south-westerly wind and a slight sea. She found the coble, which had a crew of two, broken downand drifting. The life-boat took the coble in tow and reached her station at three o'clock. Rewards to the crew, £8 8s. ; rewards to the helpers on shore, £1 16s..