COBLE ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA Runswick, Yorkshire. At 11.54 on the morning of the 26th June, 1962, the coxswain learnt that the fishing coble Golden Crown was long overdue. There was a strong northerly wind and a rough sea, and it was high water. At noon the life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched. She found the Golden Crown a mile and a half north-north-west of Staithes and escorted her safely into harbour. The life-boat reached her station at two o'clock..