The Swedish brig Baldor, from Sourabaya, reports having been in collision with a vessel, name and nation unknown, off the Cape, thereby receiving considerable damage, which is now being repaired as per recommendation of survey.

Cape Town Shipping Gazette, July 24.

[Query. One wonders if this is the brig which the Columbine ran foul of off the Cape on her passage from Liverpool to Sydney?]

SG 17 Oct 1846

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