coble

• I will not risk all by my mismanagement If the coble is beaten against the rocks, she will be smashed to pieces I will take care, father. —  Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands
• The coble was full of precious human beings; but the sea abated none of its fury, that it might ride the more safely. —  Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands
• The passengers, especially the ladies, were very kind to me: and as there was no help for it, why, I took my first voyage to the East Indies And your father and your brother Why, when I met them, which I did about six years afterwards, I found that they had been in much the same predicament, having lost the coble, and the weather being so bad that they could not get on shore again. —  Olla Podrida
• It is given more in detail and does better justice to the scene The old gentleman selected another paper, opened it, and read as follows The sum of 9 pounds has recently been given by the National Lifeboat Institution to a boat's crew, in appreciation of their gallant conduct in putting off in a salmon-coble, during a heavy gale of wind, and rescuing, at great risk of life, the crew of four men of the schooner Thankful of Sunderland, which was totally wrecked off Burghead, n.b., on the 19th July. —  The Lifeboat
• A coble was converted into a lifeboat on these principles by Lukin, and launched at Bamborough, where, in the course of the first year, it was the means of saving many lives. —  The Lifeboat

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