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Nellie Moody, of Nova Scotia

.—On the : evening of the 30th January, at about 8 P.M., a large vessel was observed to have 1 struck on the Parthingwy Rocks, near Moelfre. The Lady Vivian Life-boat, which had been sent to that station only a few weeks previously, was promptly launched, and, on reaching the stranded vessel, she was ascertained to be the barque Ndlie Moody, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, bound from Liverpool to Charlestown. She had run on the rocks during a thick fog. There was now a ground swell with a light breeze from the eastward, and it was hoped if the weather continued fine the ship would be got off. As the slightest breeze, however, would have destroyed her, the Life-boat remained by her the j greater part of the night, and while so I doing the Life-boat's crew became aware | of a small boat in the offing making j towards it; they were so fortunate as to | fall in with the crew of the wrecked ! schooner Hannah of Liverpool, who, in a small boat, had escaped from their vessel, i which had struck and foundered. The ' assistance thus rendered to those two men : (the whole crew of the schooner) by the | Life-boat was of vital consequence to j them, and they were conveyed safely on shore. The weather continuing fine, a steam-tug, which had been sent for, got the barque off the rocks..