SWANSEA.—The coxswain of the Lifeboat received a telegram from the harbour master at Port Talbot shortly before 5 P.M. on the 1st December, stating that a vessel was ashore on Port Talbot bar.

The wind was blowing from the N., with a heavy ground swell. The Life-boat Woiverhampton at once put off and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the schooner Pet, of Falmouth, bound thence to Port Talbot, with copper ore.Her crew of five men were clinging to the foretopmast rigging, and were in a most exhausted state. They were taken into the Life-boat, and landed safely at Port Talbot. The vessel became a total wreck..