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Queen Victoria

Signals of distress were observed on the 3rd of April, in response to which the David Hulett Life-boat went afloat at 10.30 P.M., and found the barque Queen Victoria, of Dublin, stranded on the Swallow Bank. At the master's request, the Life-boat remained by the vessel until the tide ebbed, when the crew were able to walk ashore. The barque became a total wreck. She was bound from Savannah for Hamburg, with a cargo of resin, and had a crew of eleven men..