FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY. — At3 P.M. on the 29th April, just before high water, the yacht Formosa, of Carmarthen, started with four men on board to try to save some drowning cattle, which had strayed on to the Cefn Sidan Sand and had been carried away by the rising tide.

A light N.N.W. wind was blowing at the time, and the sea was smooth. At 3.30, when the boat was off the mouth of Lougharne River, a hurricane suddenly rose from the N.W. All sail was lowered, and she came to anchor, but in a few minutes the cable parted and she drifted towards the opposite shore, which she struck soon afterwards. Meanwhile, she had been watched from the Life-boat Station, and the Life-boat City of Manchester put off to her, and found that she had been stove in and was full of water, a heavy sea breaking over her. Two of the men on board her were taken into the Life-boat, and the other two men came ashore when the tide had receded..