Cadiz, 10 October. Yesterday morning around 09.00 o’clock lost the 3mast frigate El Saletine of the Moroccan emperor, department Salé her anchors and was she stranded a half gunshot distance from the city. She was on a cruising voyage armed with 20 guns, a crew of 70 men and a measurement of 200 tons. All men except for one who drowned were saved and taken to the hospital and keep there in quarantine. The ship was heavily damaged and on the strand was a tent set up to store everything what could be saved from the stores on board. This will be done in the presence of a Moorish crewmember who spoke Spanish. According to a passport given by a Spanish official and last seen by the governor of Ceuta 1 May and valued until the end of July 1767 was she 22 days earlier departed from Salé while cruising in these waters and stranded on the sand bank due to heavy storms. At first it was thought she was an Algerian privateer.
