About 8.15 P.M.

on the 8th September, the schooner Mary Jane, of Lancaster, made signals of distress. For two days she had been lying at anchor near Puffin Island in an unsuitable berth, and on the 8th the S.W. wind increased to the force of a gale, causing the anchors to drag.

The Life-boat Christopher Brown was launched, but before she reached the schooner the anchors had caught in the rock of the Causeway and were holding.

There was, however, the danger that the cables might part, and as it was known from her position at the head of the Causeway that she would bump heavily as the tide ebbed, the crew of four men were rescued from their dangerous position. When the men were taken off, the weather was so bad that the Life-boat could not get back to her station, nor could she beat up to Beaumaris against the tide. The Cox- swam, therefore, anchored until 4.20 next morning, and then made for Beaumaris, arriving about 7 A.M. Three hours later the wind veered to the west- ward and moderated, and the Life-boat was able to regain her station..