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Maria

KESSINGLAND.—At 1 P.M. on the 14th October the brig Maria, of and from Hartlepool, bound to London with coal, having struck on Covehitheness Point, and being in a sinking condition, made signals of distress, and ran on shore on the beach, four hundred yards south of Kessingland, where she became a total wreck. Her crew, consisting of six men, left in their own boat, and were drifting on the Newcome Sand, when they were rescued by the Kessingland No. 1 Lifeboat, the Solion..