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Auffredy, of Sunderland

HARTLEPOOL.—At 10 o'clock on the night of the 1st October, the No. 1 Lifeboat, Charles Mather, gallantly rescued, in a heavy surf, 3 men, being part of the crew of the barque Auffredy, of Sunderland, which had driven ashore 3i miles north of Hartlepool. The rest of the crew, 6 in number, had left the vessel in their own boat before she went ashore.

In two hours after the crew were taken off, the ship became a total wreck and went to pieces..