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Caroline

On the 23rd February, the steam Lifeboat was called out by signals from the Formby and Crosby light vessels, and on reaching the latter found she had a shipwrecked crew on board. Their vessel, the schooner Caroline, of Fowey, had lost her sails in a heavy squall and stranded onTaylor's Bank, and as it was evident that she would become a total wreck the men took to their boat and succeeded in boarding the light-ship. They were taken into the Life-boat and landed at New Brighton at midnight in a very exhausted condition..