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Guiding Star

CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — Information was brought to this Life-boat Station on the morning of the 14th February of a wreck on Skerries Island. The wind was blowing half a gale from S.W. at the time. The Lifeboat Ashtonian was immediately launched and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the barque Guiding Star, of Salcombe, bound to that port from Liverpool with coal. ;,The captain, his wife, and the crew, consisting of eight men, had succeeded in getting on the rocks by means of ropes from the jib-boom end. The Life-boat stayed several hours at the island, and eventually 7 of the shipwrecked people were, with great difficulty on account of the tremendous sea, taken into the Lifeboat and landed at Cemaes. Three of the vessel's crew remained on the island, so as to be able to save anything that might be washed ashore. On the 17th inst. the Life-boat again went to the island and brought them ashore..