Amble, Northumberland. At 8.34 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was in difficulties half a mile east of Cresswell. At 8.58 the Life-boat Millie Walton was launched in a westnorth- westerly gale and a rough sea. It was two hours after low water. The lifeboat found the local fishing coble Silver Coquet and escorted her safely to Amble by 11.45..