SEVERAL COBLES ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA Scarborough, Yorkshire. During the early morning of the 16th January, 1963, the easterly wind increased to gale force and anxiety was felt for the safety of six local fishing boats which were still at sea. At 5.55 the life-boat /. G. Graves of Sheffield was, launched in a very rough sea, snow showers and a flooding tide just as two of the cobles entered the harbour. She made a search and found the coble Rosemary two miles northnorth- east of Scarborough castle. She escorted her in and then met the Premier five miles to the north-east-by-north.

She escorted her to harbour too and then found the Betty three miles north-east of the castle. The life-boat accompanied the Betty to Scarborough, but by this time conditions had become so bad at the harbour entrance that the life-boat had to spray oil on the sea to make it smoother. The sea was too rough for the sixth coble, the Rachel, to enter, and the life-boat escorted her to Whitby before returning to Scarborough.

She escorted four more fishing boats into Scarborough harbour and finally reached her station at 4.25 in the afternoon..