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The S.S. Cameroon (1)

CEMAES AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—The s.s. Cameroon, of Glasgow, bound from the Canary Islands for Liverpool, with passengers and a cargo of African produce, stranded on the rocks at Galanddu Point, near Wylfa Head, in foggy weather on the morning of the 27th March. The Cemaes Life - boat George Evans and the Cemlyn Life-boat B. J. Nicholson proceeded to her assistance and landed her passengers, the greater portion of whom were ladies, nine of them being taken into the Cemaes boat and ten into the Cemlyn boat. The vessel afterwards floated and proceeded to Liverpool, the coxswain of the Cemaes Life-boat remaining on board to afford the captain information regarding the nature of the coast..