Note 51 — HOLYHEAD. (continued 2)
Reading edition
On Saturday, Feb. 26, 1853, this locality was visited with a most terrific gale of wind from the North West, which, during the time it lasted, was the most violent that has been in the recollection of the oldest inhabitant. The sea raged with immense fury, and carried away many hundred feet of the staging, both at the Soldier’s Point and Salt Island, strewing immense balks of timber along the shore, all round the bay in every direction. But amid all this destruction, occasioned by “elemental strife,” the Rendall Breakwater, that is, the deposited stones, defied the mountain wave, and became the more solidified by the mighty seas which swept over it.