PORTH RHUFFYDD, ANGELSEY. — On the morning of the 22ud June the coxswain of the Life-boat received intelligence that steamer was ashore S.E. of the Life-boat station. The weather at the time was thick, a moderate wind was Wowing from the S.W., and there was a moderate sea.

At 5.30 the Life -boat Norbnry was launched, and found the stranded vessel was the s.s, Mersey, of and for Liverpool, from Dunkirk, with a cargo of sugar.

The Life-boat took out an anchor, but as the flood tide made the sea increased, and the vessel, which struck heavily on the rocks, filled with water, and by 11.30thirteen men were landed by means of ladders from the shore to the rocks..