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The Wandsbek

CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—The full-rigged ship, Wandsbek, of Hamburg, struck on the Dales rocks at the Lizard Point, on the 26th May. Bookets were fired fromthe signal station, the Life-boat Minnit Moon wai launched at 4.5 P.M. in response to them, and remained during the night by the vessel on board of which the captain remained, the crew having left in the ship's boats. The ship was firmly fixed on the rocks which penetrated her, her cargo of wheat being sodden with water became swollen, burst the decks, and she became a total wreck. She had anchored at Falmouth a few days previously, from Portland, U.S., awaiting orders, and was on her way to Liverpool to discharge her cargo when the casualty overtook her,.