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Teviotdale

CARMARTHEN BAY.—A vessel having been reported ashore on Cefn Sidan sands during a heavy gale from the N.W. on the 16th October, the Life-boat City of Manchester was launched at 3.15 A.M., and proceeded through a dangerously heavy sea to the vessel, which proved to be the four-masted ship Teviotdale, of Glasgow, bound from Cardiff for Bombay with a cargo of coal. Nineteen of her crew, including the master, had left the ship and tried to reach the shore, but the boatwas capsized by the heavy seas, and the master and sixteen of the men were unfortunately drowned, the other two men safely reaching the land. The Life-boat took off the remaining ten men. and safely landed them at 6 A.M..