Definitely Cullercoats / Tynemouth though; you never get seas like that in Fleetwood even on stormy day, way too shallow; hence the lack of sheltering piers in these parts, just pleasure piers, erstwhile or otherwise...

For more on Cullercoats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullercoats

Little boats too; the once ubiquitous coble, as you can see in the Carmichael painting. Once a real feature of the NE coast, though you don't see so many of them now. In the words of the old Newcastle folk song:

There's Tynemouth and Cullercoats
And North Shields for sculler-boats
Westhoe lies iv a nuek;
South Shield's the place for muck

Sculler-boats? No idea; racing sculls just don't fit with the area. I've heard it sung as shuggy-boats which I associate more with Tynemouth (and Cullercoats if I remember right) than North Shields (the town of my birth).