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Jonadab

At 10 A.M. on the 12th May, during a heavy N.N.E.

gale, the fishing lugger Jonadab, of St.

Ives, was returning from the fishing ground. When trying to make the Harbour she struck and grounded on the ridge, bumping heavily. A shore boat succeeded in getting ropes on board from the Quay, but when trying to haul the vessel clear the ropes carried away and the heavy seas beat the vessel towards the rocks inside Pednolver Point, where she again stranded. The Life-boat James Stephens No. 10 was promptly launched and succeeded in taking off the six men on board, the vessel becoming a total wreck..