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Flares were seen from the Barber Sand at about 1 A.M. on the 5th April, during a N.N.E. wind and a very heavy sea. The No. 2 Life-boat was launched, proceeded in the direction, and found a fishing-vessel on the sand. About this time a flare wasseen from the Cross Sand, and as the Seratby Life-boat was seen approaching the fishing-boat, the Life-boat tacked, and at once sailed to the Cross Sand, and fell in with the brig Spring, of Guernsey, stranded there. She was bound from Shields for St. Male, with a cargo of coal, and had nine men on board, who were taken into the Life-boat, and safely landed at Great Yarmouth. The Teasel became a total wreck..