Royal Diadem II is a general purpose motor coble with auxiliary sail. Briefly her history is:
Built by Harrison’s of Amble in 1948.
First owners William and Albert Silk.
First port Newton by the Sea, then Craster (same owners).
Sold to Boulmer where the owner was William Ralph Wood. The boat may have also been owned by James Carse [...]
Golden Gleam was built in 1948 by Ralph Dawson of Seahouses, Northumberland, for a fisherman called Main Downey who lived in Boulmer.
The boat was a Northumbrian coble, 29 feet long, powered by a (secondhand?) BMC car engine, adapted for marine use. The vessel had a mast and auxiliary sail. She was one of the earliest [...]
Peggy was built by Harrisons of Amble in 1924 for stock but soon found a buyer, one of the Hall family of Beadnell. She was sold to Robert Rutter of Seahouses and at that time carried the number BK7. Later she moved to Amble and became Glad Tidings BH177. Her last port was Hartlepool, from [...]
The Mary Young is a typical salmon coble of the middle twentieth century.
She was built in the 1970s by Harrison’s of Amble for a fisherman working from Amble harbour. Her earlier name was Acclaim. It appears she was never registered on the fishing boat register as boats used for salmon fishing did not need to [...]
A Coble Restored
Old Northumbrian sailing coble “Peggy” has just been re-launched after extensive restoration work by Fred Crowell, Tyneside’s last wooden boatbuilder. Fred has been rebuilding the vessel over the last three months in his workshop next door to the North East Maritime Trust in Wapping Street, South Shields. The 80 year old boat was [...]