The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

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;otnmander M
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he 20th July sl

into Cape St. Mary's on the look out for a pilot

being a light easterly wind,

she continued- her course, and at midday on the 21st
she was off the above island. The wind afterwards
increased with great violence, and a heavy shower of hail
and rain began to fait, and there being no pilot to be seen
on the ration, all her sails were shortened, and she hove
to about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, with her head to
the southward, the weather at that time being very thick,
and several high breakers near her. She, however, still
made way, although very little, going at the early part of
the evening not more than two knots an hour. At 8
o'clock the weather had become exceedingly misty, so
much so that the ship's length could scarcely be discerned,
and every precaution was adopted in order to prevent ac-
cident, a man being constantly at her mast bead, and the
lead kept going. The captain, fearing from the violence
of the gale that if he anchored on the spot she would be
blown away from her moorings and every soul perish, de-
termined on keeping her under canvas, as from her posi-
tion he supposed she would make the Mount by the fol-
lowing morning. She kept going on very steadily till
about midnight, when the captain went down below for a
short time, the mate being at the mast-head, when he no
sooner did so than he heard a distant shock from her
striking forward, though in six fathoms, aft and hind.
The captain instantly rushed on deck and put the helm
a-port, which she answered, and the sails were set. The
heavy serf, however, that was running kept constantly
beating her on the shoal, and the crew expected every
moment that she would be beaten to atoms, and they all
meet with a watery grave. She soon got clear, and the
captain decided on running for Monte Video, although
the weather was exceedingly dark. Accordingly the pumps
were kept going, and the carpenters set to work to repair
the ship. Unfortunately, however, she had received too
great an injury, as the sea was fast flowing into the hold.
Notwithstanding this the captain still kept her on the
tack, and it was only at 3 o'clock on the following morn-
ing when the water was level with the cabin decks, that
the captain and crew, 13 in number, left the ill-fated ves-
sel in her boats. She soon went down in deep water, and
the crew then steered for the above port, in doing which
they encountered most tempestuous weather, the boat at
one time being almost full of water and amidst breakers.
At length, after the lapse of six hours, they succeeded in
reaching Monte Video, greatly fatigued from excessive
exertion and exposure to cold. At this port it appears
the poor fellows were not treated by the Consul in that
kind manner which their destitute case deserved. They
have, however, safely arrived in England.

OBSERVATIONS IN RESPECT OF THE ISLANDS
OF RASAY AND RONA, IN SCOTLAND.

" The islands of Rasa), and Rona form part of the Wes-
tern Hebrides, situated in the county of Inverness, lying
between the island of Skye and the mainland. Rona lies
directly north of Rasay.