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Anna, of Rensburgh

ANSTRUTHER, N.B.—As one of the congregations of this town were coming out of church on the evening of the 26th March, the signal gun was fired to summon the crew of the Life-boat Admiral Fitzroy. The schooner Anna, ofRensburgh, had been driven ashore on the Gat rock, near the entrance to the harbour, it blowing hard from the S.E., and a heavy sea setting up the Firth. It was dead low water, and great difficulty and delay would have occurred in launching the boat, had not the greater part of the above-mentioned congregation turned-to, and with hearty good will ("Sunday clothes" notwithstanding) transported the Life-boat on her carriage along the basin of the new harbour, and down over the shallows to the edge of the reef, through which she was launched, and was not long in reachingreaching the wreck. ' In hopes of doing something for the stranded vessel herself, the Life-boat remained alongside till 10 P.M.; then all hope was abandoned, and the crew of 4 men were brought ashore; the Anna, which had been bound from Tonning to Burntisland, becoming a total wreck..