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 Translation for 'coble' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a coble | cobles
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fiskibátur {k}
coble [flat-bottomed fishing boat of a type used in Scotland and NE England]
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  • He was only ten when he took the place in the family fishing coble of his uncle John, who had died.
  • Others include a full size coble boat, a lighthouse, a shell from the Bombardment of Hartlepool and many ships' models and engine displays.
  • The Laboratory also operated a public aquarium and once housed the coble in which Grace Darling and her father rescued passengers from the "SS Forfashire" in 1838.
  • There is a long tradition of using the coble (a traditional fishing vessel) in Staithes.
  • The sardana is played by a band ("coble") consisting of three kinds of oboes, flutes and other instrument, including shawms and bagpipes among some recent revivalists.

  • Example of a Northumberland, Seahouses coble named "Boy's Own" - built for Robert Rutter in 1933.
  • He did not succeed with the practical application of his invention until 1789, three years after Lukin’s converted coble was presented to Dr Sharpe.
  • Actual angling was done from a small boat, sometimes a coble towed to the fishing grounds behind a large yacht.
  • Within the Port of Tyne, foyboats evolved differently from the River Wear where the hull design was more closely associated with the Coble to create the foy coble.
  • The Tweed fishermen with their coble boats helped bring the artillery back over the Tweed.

  • In 1590 the parishioners of Lindean had permission to rebuild their church on the north side of the Tweed, at the west end of Boleside, nearer to their houses, and a coble boat was to be provided to ferry the dead over the Tweed if required.
  • Many families owned or part-owned cobles. Later some owned ocean-going craft.
  • Traditional Northumbrian fishing vessels such as cobles had previously sheltered in the natural harbour for centuries.
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