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The S.S. Tolfaen

LLANDDULAS.—The s.s. Tolfaen, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool forNewry with wheat, was seen at anchor in Ehos Bay, with a heavy list to port and flying a signal of distress during a strong gale from the N.N.W., and a very heavy sea on the morning of the 6th October. The Lifeboat Mary Jane Gould was at once taken out of her house, horses were procured, and the boat was conveyed by road to Llandrillo, yu Ehos, distant between five and six miles, the wind and sea being unfavourable for launching at Llanddulas.

The journey was quickly accomplished, and the boat was launched, and reached the vessel, when it was found that five of the crew of seven men had been lost in the storm in the early morning, when about ten miles N.E. of the Great Orme's Head; they had taken to their boat, or were preparing to enter it, thinking the steamer would sink, the heavy sea striking her, having caused the cargo to shift, when the boat and men were washed away. The master and fireman only were left on board, and managed to bring the steamer into Ehos Bay, where they anchored her. Some of the Life-boat men boarded the vessel, and she was taken to Garth, in the Menai Straits, arriving there in the afternoon..