The coble, the traditional fishing vessel of the north-east coast of England, is probably the most distinctive of all British boat types ... It was used in Hartlepool, Amble, Sunderland and ...

Hartlepool RNLI chairman Malcolm Cook said ... Lionel Lukin, to convert a local fishing boat into an “unimergible” boat (i.e.

Hartlepool’s new £2.45m RNLI lifeboat ... Most importantly in 1788 he commissioned the conversion of a local fishing boat into a boat which would not sink, the first time a boat had been ...