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The Mignonette.

BROOKE.—On the 19th January at 8 P.M.

the coastguard at this station discovered that a ship was on the rocks at Sudmore.

The crew of the Life-boat George and Anne were summoned as soon as possible, and with the aid of horses the boat was conveyed on her carriage to the vicinity of the wreck, and launched about 10 P.M.

through a heavy ground swell. Towards midnight she regained the shore with the crew of the wrecked vessel, 14 in number.

The wind at the time was moderate; the wreck had been caused by a thick fog.

The vessel's name was the Mignonette.

She belonged to London, and was bound from Berbice, British Guiana, to London, with a cargo of sugar and rum..