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A Boat Fairy Queen

During a strong south-easterly gale on the 10th August, the pilots at this place observed a boat, about eight miles to the N.E., with a signal at her mast-head. The Christopher Brown Life-boat proceeded to it, but found that the boat was empty, and it was afterwards discovered that it was the boat Fairy Queen, of Llaududno, which had broken adrift from its moorings. It was then secured by the Life-boat, and taken 'into Llandudno, after which the boat returned to its station, being towed from Llandudno by the Dublin steamer Prince of Wales, through a very heavy sea..