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Drawing of the Cricieth lifeboat going to the rescue of the barque Spanker wrecked off Morfa Harlech, 7 Feb. 1885 by Owen Jones, Cricieth, Christmas 1929. Cefnodwyd: LLYTHYR: Owen Jones, [monumental mason], 15 Stanley Rd., Cricieth at Robert Williams, [5 Chapel St., Cricieth], yr unig un sydd yn dal yn fyw o griw’r bad achub 43 neu 44 mlynedd yn ôl. Mae ef yn amgau "rough sketch" o longddrylliad y Spanker ar Far Porthmadog. Cafodd y disgrifiad gan y diweddar Dafydd Evans, joiner a oedd yn un o’r criw. (See the article ";The wreck of the Barque Spanker by Capt. W.E. Williams in Maritime Wales No. 11, 1987.)


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