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Dizzy Dunlop and Caboceer

BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.

—During a dense fog on the 6th of April it was reported that a schooner was in distress on Atherfield Ledge. The crew of the Life-boat Worcester Cadet were summoned, and at 8.55 P.M. the boat was launched, made as straight a course as possible to the rocks, rescued two of the crew of the schooner Dizzy Dunlop, of and from Portmadoc, bound to Kiel with a cargo of slates, and landed them at midnight.

Three of her crew had already left the vessel.

The Life-boat •wa.s again, launched at 12.55 A.M., and saved the crew of four men from the schooner Caboceer, of Chester, bound from Swansea to Dover with a cargo of coa\, which had run on the Ship Ledge during the fog and was filling with water..