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Hope

PENMON, ANGLESEY.—Early on the morning of 23rd August the dandy Hope, of St.

Ives, bound from Buncorn to Penryn with coal, having dragged her anchor and parted her chain, struck on the Dutchman Sandbank, opposite to Penmon, and hoisted a signal of distress. The Penmon Life-boat Christopher Brown at once went to her assistance, and after remaining by her for some time, put five men on board, and, with great difficulty, owing to the state of the tide and the quantity of water in her hold, brought her safely into Friars Roads, the men having to work at the pumps all the way. She carried a crew of three men..