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Matilda

DONNA NOOK, THEDDLETHORPE, AND CLEETHOBPES, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A very severe gale occurred on the Lincolnshire coast last November, its violence being experienced more or loss for nearly nine days.

On the 8th, at 8.30 P.M., signals of distress were shown near Graiuthorpe Haven, by the brig Matilda, of Laurvig, during a whole gale from the N. and a very rough sea. The Donna Nook Life-boat North Briton was taken along the coast a distance of about five miles, and was thenlaunched, and succeeded in rescuing the crew, consisting of 10 men. The brig, which was bound from Laurvig to Hull with a cargo of ice, became a total wreck..