FISHING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW Seaham, Co. Durham. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 7th April, 1962, the Seaham coastguard received a report from Easington that a fishing coble was in distress. A gentle west-by-north wind was blowing, and the sea was slight.

The tide was flooding. At 2.50 the lifeboat George Elmy was launched. She found the fishing coble Trip, with her engine broken down, two and a half miles east of Crimdon. After taking her crew of six on board the life-boat towed the fishing coble to Seaham and then returned to her station, which she reached at 5.55..