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Yacht Haidee

LLANDUDNO.—At about 2.40 P.M. on the 7th September, the Life-boat Sisters' Memorial was launched to the assistance of the cutter yacht Haidee, of Liverpool, which had shown a signal of distress while at anchor in the bay, during a strong breeze from the N.E. and a heavy swell.

On reaching the vessel it was found that she was leaking badly, had lost her rudder and was gradually sinking. The Life-boat brought ashore her punt, the crew of two men having just previously been landed by a shore boat..