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Florence, of Nova Scotia

Again, on the 13th April a brigantine, which proved to be the Florence, of Annapolis, Nova Scotia, with a cargo of salt, was observed with a flag of dis- tress flying, grounded on the Long Bank, about six miles from the entrance to Wex- ford Harbour. The Wexford No. 1 Life- boat, the Ethel Eveleen, went at once to her aid. With the aid of the Life-boat's crew the ship was lightened, in the course of a feW hours got off the bank, and anchored in the South Bay..