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Azow

NORTH BERWICK, N.B.—The Life-boat Freemason was launched about 8 P.M. on the 14th August, to the assistance of the barque Azow, of Christiansand, which vessel had stranded 2 miles north of Berwick, and lost her rudder. There was a thick fog. The Life-boat found the wreck deserted by the crew, who had put to sea in their own boat, but made in a wrong direction, in ignorance of their real whereabouts, and the Life-boat was soon standing after her under sail; fortunately she fell in with the boat, and conveyed it and those on board, 8 in number, safely into port..