9th May,1877:
Transatlantic Passenger liner S.S.Dakota, of Liverpool, was outward-bound for New York in calm conditions when, 2-miles offshore, the Captain ordered a change of course to seaward. 

However, she turned in the opposite direction and, steaming at 14kn, ran onto the rocks near the port of Amlwch, north Wales. 

Her crew of 109 and 218 passengers were all rescued safely by Bull-bay Lifeboat and most of the mail and passengers' luggage was recovered before she slid off the rocks into deeper water to become a total loss.

Most of her 2,000T general cargo, however, was in the holds towards the stern of the vessel and due to the depth of the water(60ft) and the funneling of the tide between the mainland and the island of East-Mouse very little of this could be salved at the time.

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