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SEATON CAREW.—Eockete and flares having been seen on the Longscar Bocks during an E. wind, a strong sea, and foggy weather on the 21st October, the Job Hindley Life-boat was launched at 7 P.M., proceeded in the direction in which the signals had been seen, and found seven men in a small boat belonging to the steam-trawler Express, of Scarborough, which was totally wrecked on the rocks. But for the services of the Life-boat the whole of the men would, in all probability, have been drowned had they attempted to land, owing to the heavy surf on the beach..