TOW TAKEN OVER FROM COBLE Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 9.35 on the morning of the 29th March, 1963, the coxswain received a message from the Filey fishermen that the Scarborough keelboat Hyperion had reported by radio-telephone that the fishing coble Hilda II of Scarborough was firing flares two miles east-by-north of Scarborough.

The life-boat /. G. Graves of Sheffield was launched at 9.40 in a strong south-easterly breeze and a rough sea. The tide was half ebb. The life-boat found the Hilda //in tow of the coble Premier. The Hilda II had a broken shaft. The Premier's engine was also faulty, so the life-boat took over the tow to the harbour. The life-boat then returned to escort the Premier and three more cobles into harbour and reached her station at 2.20..