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Tyro

CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At 1.40 A.M. on the 5th of January, flares were seen on the Barber Sand during a fresh breeze from S.S.W. and a moderate sea. A yawl having been promptly launched, and proceeded to the sand, found the dandy Tyro, of London, aground there.

About half-an-hour afterwards the yawl signalled for the Life-boat, whereupon the No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, went off and remained by the vessel until she floated..