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Endeavour and Eliza Bell

ABEBSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The Mabel Louisa Life-boat was launched, at 2.30 A.M.

on the 29th of April, with much difficulty, the night being very dark, the tide far out, and a very heavy sea breaking on the shore. She proceeded to the smack Endeavour, of Portmadoc, bound from Newport, Monmouthshire, for Abersoch, with a cargo of coal; but meanwhile the vessel parted both chains, and drove ashore on the beach. There were only three lads on board, and as the coxswain feared they might try to get ashore in their boat, and possibly be drowned in the attempt, the Life-boat made for the vessel, and took them off. The boat then went to the schooner Eliza Bell, of Amlwch, coal laden from Liverpool to Abersoch, which had parted one of her chains, and rescued the crew of three men, and the mate's wife and child..