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Gertrude

TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—At 2 A.M. on the 30th September signals of distress were observed in Dnndrum Bay, about a mile S.S.W. of the Craigalea Bocks. The wind was blowing from the S., the weather was thick and hazy, and there was a heavy ground swell. The Memorial Life-boat proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the barque Gertrude, of Liverpool, bound from Quebec to Belfast with timber, and brought ashore thirteen of the crew..