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Jubilee

PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the 22nd December, 1886, the schooner Jubilee, of Preston, bound from Liverpool for Dundalk with a cargo of coal, was seen to run aground on the Causeway Kocks, near Puffin Island, during a strong breeze from the N.W. The Life-boat Christopher Brown put off to her assistance at 3.55 P.M., some of the Life-boat men boarded her and got her off the rocks; but a hawser which was fast to a stream-anchor fouled the rudder. Sail was then made on the vessel, dragging the anchor, until she was got into the Channel, where she was anchored by her bower-anchor. Her crew of three men were lauded by the Life-boat, and the next morning the weather having moderated, they went on board again and proceeded to Beaumaris..