DECEMBER 19TH. - NEWBIGGIN - BY - THE - SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND. Eight cobles were out fishing, and a fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat station received a message from the coastguard that the weather was getting worse and that the cobles might need her help. At 12.15 another message came from the coastguard, and at 12.43 the motor life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched. Her coxswain, secondcoxswain, bowman, and other members of the crew were out with the fishing boats, and a scratch crew was formed, The winchman, an old member of the crew, acted as coxswain, and the women helped to launch. The lifeboat escorted the cobles into harbour and returned to her station at 2.45 in the afternoon.

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