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Ellen and Unda

CABDIGAK.—At about 9 P.M. on the 6th September, the smack Ellen, of and from Milford, for Cardigan, with a cargo of limestones, anchored in Cardigan Bay, during a heavy gale from the N. W. by W.

and a high sea. She was watched from the shore, and at about 10.30 she was seen to be showing a signal of distress. The Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Glare, stationed at Cardigan, thereupon put off to her and brought ashore her crew of two men and the mate's wife. The vessel afterwards dragged her anchor and became a total wreck.

Immediately after landing these three persons, distress signals were exhibited by the Norwegian brigantine Unda, bound from Nova Scotia to Cardigan with timber, which was anchored in the bay. The Life-boat proceeded to her, and found that the crew of five men and the pilot wished to be taken ashore, in consequence of the violence of the storm. They were therefore taken into the Life-boat and safely landed..