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Richard Cobden

During a whole gale of wind from the S.W. on the 10th February the Life-boat was launched at 5 P.M., and proceeded to the schooner Richard Cobden, of Swansea, bound from Briton Ferry to Freeport, U.S., with coal, which was flying a signal of distress in Caldy Roads. She had parted one anchor and was dragging the other, and at the master's request five of the Life-boat's crew went on board and put out kedge anchors, and after this was accomplished the Lifeboat brought ashore the vessel's crew, consisting of 5 men. On the following morning the weather moderated, the crew were taken off to their vessel by a shore-boat, and she was brought into Tenby harbour..