Saetia Mazed

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1784 - "The Saetia Mazed was captured (?why and ?where) by the Stag, letter of marque of Liverpool, in July 1783 and condemned as a prize. On 10 January the following year the vessel drove ashore at Llangennith and was wrecked. Part of her cargo of brandy and elephant tusks, which was consigned to William Jones of Swansea, was looted by the 'country people'" [Robert Carl Smith, Gower Coast Shipwrecks.] George Edmunds who wrote The Gower Coast interviewed someone who remembered a neighbour with elephant tusks in his garden! (ref 130)