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Marie

BARMOUTH.— On the 27th January, during thick weather and a strong N.W.

wind, a small steamer signalled for a pilot, but the sea was too rough for an ordinary boat to cross the bar. The vessel was evidently a stranger, and if the wind had increased, serious consequences might have ensued to her. The Life - boat Jones - Gibb was therefore launched at 1.45 P.M., and found that she was the Marie, of Glasgow, bound from Harrington with a cargo of manganese for Pensarn, a small creek about seven miles N. of Barmouth. One of the Life-boat men was put on board to pilot her, but as it was too late for ibfi tide, they made for St. Tud wells Beads, and returned to the creek on the following morning..