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The Danmark

PALLING, NORFOLK.—At 10 A.M. on the 3rd April, during a strong wind from the E. and a .heavy sea, a brig was seen stranded at Waxham, and showing signals of distress. The Palling No. 1 Life-boat was promptly launched and went to the aid of the vessel, which was found to bethe Danmark, of Dragor, Denmark, bound from Bonne to Rotterdam, with china clay. Her crew of ten men were taken into the Life-boat and safely landed at Palling at about 1 P.M. The brig became a total wreck..