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Clarissa, of Bideford

JUNE 20TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

A message was received from the police that a vessel was flashing a lamp in Conway Bay. A light south-west wind was blowing and the sea choppy. At eleven o’clock the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards was launched and found the fishing boat Clarissa, of Bideford, with her engine broken down. She had a crew of two, and they had been without food for two days. They asked the life-boat to tow her into Conway, but in the freshening wind the weight of the Clarissa was too much for the life-boat. She took off the two men and landed them at Llandudno. - Rewards, £15 8s..