FISHING COBLE TOWED TO HARBOUR Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.22 on the afternoon of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Effra had reported that she had the local fishing coble Mardi Gras with a crew of three in tow four miles south-east of Sunderland north pier. She asked if the life-boat would take over the tow. At 5.55 the life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched in a light easterly breeze, a moderate sea and an ebbing tide. She found the Effra, which had a fouled propeller, three miles south-east of Roker pier. She took her in tow to Sunderland, arriving at 7.35..