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Aurora

BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE.—At 4 A.M.

on the 1st June, the Life-boat English Mechanic, of this station, proceeded out of the river to the assistance of the schooner Aurora, of Christiania, which vessel was ashore on the Coal Hill Bank, while it was blowing hard from the S.E.

Before the arrival of the Life-boat, the crew, 6 in number, had abandoned the wreck in their own boat; they were transferred from it to the Life-boat, and conveyed into the river in safety..