TOW FOR FISHING COBLE AFTER SEARCH Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 10th April, 1962, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Mother's Joy, which was overdue, was thought to have broken down off St. Mary's lighthouse.

The life-boat Richard Ashley was launched at 3.55 in a moderate westsouth- westerly wind and a slight swell.

It was two hours after low water. The life-boat carried out a search over a wide area and eventually found the fishing coble with a crew of two on board. She took her in tow to Newbiggin and reached her station at six o'clock..