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Admiral Nelson, of Beaumaris

NEW BRIGHTON. — Information was brought to the Life-boat Station at 9.45 P.M. on the 17th May, that a vessel had beaten over the Brazil Bank and had sunk in the Kock Channel. The wind was blowing from the W.S.W. at the time; the weather was squally, and there was a heavy sea. The Willie and Arthur Lifeboat promptly put off to the help of the vessel, which proved to be the schooner Admiral Nelson, of Beaumaris, laden with stone, and rescued her crew of two men, who were in an exhausted condition..