September 26 - About eight o'clock this morning a party of 18 fishermen from Whitburn with five boats came for mussels to the Tyne. They had collected a considerable quantity from the bank between the Black Middens and the Low Lights, when they were set upon by a body of sixty or seventy fishermen from Cullercoats, with a strong following of fishwives, who boarded the Whitburn cobles and threw the mussels into the river.
The Whitburn men took refuge on the Herd Sand and subsequently rowed to the Coble Landing, South Shields, and bought ten bushels of mussels for each boat. As soon as the Whitburn boats started for home, the Cullercoats men gave chase. Two of the former returned and remained at the Coble Landing, closely watched by Cullercoats men.
The other three Whitburn boats, by carrying a dangerous spread of sail, managed to escape.
