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Celestina

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At daybreak on the 30th January the barque Celestina, of Fiume, which had been riding in the bay for some days, was seen dismasted but riding easily at her anchor. Subsequently signals were shown, and, in response to them, the Life-boat Two Sisters proceeded to the vessel and found that the master wished to make arrangements with his owners for getting the ship towed to Ayr, whither she was bound with a cargo of bones from, the River Plate. The masts had been cut away on the previous night to avoid her being driven on the Bahama Bank in the gale then prevailing.