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Fishing Cobles

THIRTEEN AT SEA Filey and Flamborough, Yorkshire.

At 1.20 p.m. on 3Oth December, 1964, the coastguard told the Filey honorary secretary that the wind was reaching storm force. As there were 13 local fishing cobles at sea the Filey life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted was launched at 1.40. The Flamborough life-boat Friendly Forester was also launched five minutes later as some of the cobles were fishing off Flamborough Head. Both life-boats escorted the cobles to safety. The Flamborough life-boat returned to her station at 3.45 and the Filey life-boat arrived at her station at 4.10..