CREW TAKEN OFF FISHING COBLE Seaham, Co. Durham. At 8.11 on the morning of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen two and a half miles north of Seaham. The life-boat George Elmy was launched at 8.25, two and a half hours before low water, in a light south-easterly breeze and a moderate sea. She found a fishing coble with her engine broken down and took her crew of five aboard. With the coble in tow the life-boat returned to her station, arriving at 9.26..