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A Hundred Years Ago. A Wreck of Aberdeen

THE brig Superb, of Aberdeen, was wrecked on the Shipwash Sand, in April, 1829, out of which three men were saved (two having died in the rigging), by Win. Mudd and S. Wordley, masters of two smacks, after persevering exertion during fifteen hours under circumstances of very considerable difficulty ; on which occasion, the Committee awarded them the Silver Medal of the Institution, with £26 to them and their crews..