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Lady Lucy

RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.—On the morning of the 16th February, the Life-boat Caroline Richardson was called out to the assistance of a small yacht—the Lady Lucy, of Liverpool — in distress ashore outside the bar. She left Liverpool the previous afternoon bound to Conway, and when night set in a stiff north-westerly breeze sprang up, driving the vessel shorewards; in spite of efforts to get clear, the yacht grounded, and the owner sent his man ashore in the punt to get help. The Coxswain of the Life-boat at once put off in his own boat, but in the darkness he failed to find her, as she had no lights. At dawn it was seen that she was in a very dangerous position. The Life-boat was therefore launched, and succeeded in reaching the yacht, whose owner was in a very exhausted condition..