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PENMON, ANGLESEY.—A vessel was seen ashore on the north side of Puffin Island, during a moderate gale from the N.N.E.

and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 13th of October, and some men were observed on the island. The Christopher Brown Life-boat was launched at 9, o'clock, and found that the ketch Hope, of St. Ives, bound from Buncorn for Pentowen, Cornwall, with coal, having sprung a leak and become unmanageable, had stranded halfway between the beacon and Puffin Island, where she became a total wreck. The crew of three men, who had taken refuge on the island, were taken into the Lifeboat and landed at Beaumaris..