LIFE-BOAT REFLOATS GROUNDED COBLE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.40 a.m. on Friday the 30th August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing coble Dorothy was ashore at Danes Dyke and that another coble was going to attempt to refloat her. At 9.15 the honorary secretary was told that the second coble had returned to harbour and that the Dorothy was still aground.

There was a moderate south-southeasterly breeze and a corresponding sea.

The tide was flooding. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield 11. was launched at 9.35 and came up with the Dorothy at ten o'clock. The coble had put out with a borrowed rowing boat in tow to recover her salmon nets. The nets had fouled her propeller and the rowing boat had broken adrift and been driven ashore over rocks. The coble had then drifted on to the rocks. When the owners of the rowing boat saw what had happened they went by road to Danes Dyke and salvaged their boat.

On the arrival of the life-boat three men put out in the rowing boat and passed a line from the Dorothy to the life-boat. The coble was then towed clear and the three people in the rowing boat, which had been damaged when washed ashore, were taken on board the life-boat. The life-boat towed both boats back to harbour, arriving at 11.30a.m..