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Cairnduna

In the forenoon of the 9th March, the schooner Cairnduna, of Thurso, bound from Dundee to Sunder- land, was driven ashore on the strand below Bamborough Castle, about five miles from the Life-boat Station at North Sim- derland. The Life-boat — the Joseph An- stice — having been conveyed along the sands by horses, was launched abreast of the wreck, and succeeded in landing from her the crew of 4 men. A heavy northerly gale was blowing when this service was performed..