JANUARY 20TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

A heavy easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea and violent squalls of hail and snow, and the life-boat coxswain and motor-mechanic had been on the alert for some time when, at 1.2 P.M., the coastguard reported a ketch flying a distress signal close to Trinity Perch Rocks. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched at 1.27 P.M. and found the motor ketch Florette, of Chester, yawing about very dangerously, with one of her anchor chains parted. At the second attempt the life-boat got alongside and rescued the crew of three, after having been struck and slightly damaged by the ketch. She returned to her station at 2.8 P.M. - Rewards, £3 16s..