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Nimrod

The barqueNimrod, of Liverpool, was seen to be burning flares on the Holm Sand at 7.30 P.M. on the 18th November, during a gale of wind from the S. and a high sea. The No. 1 Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched, proceeded to the vessel, and rescued her crew, consisting of seventeen men and a pilot. The barque, which was bound from Grimsby to Valparaiso with coal, became a total wreck..