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Lamb

NEW BRIGHTON.—On the arrival of the steam ferry boat Thistle from Liverpool on the morning of the 27th January, the master reported that a vessel was ashore on Taylor's Bank. The coxswain of the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was at once informed of the fact and the Life-boat proceeded through a heavy sea, the wind blowing a g&le from the S.W., in the direction of the Formby light-vessel, and found the schooner Lamb, of Barrow, ashore, in a perilous position with the heavy seas breaking over her. She was on a voyage from Fowey to Kuncorn, laden with china clay, but having lost her rudder head she became unmanageable and finally stranded. She had on board a crew of six men, all of whom were taken into the Life-boat, together with a fine retriever dog to which the crew were greatly attached. They were landed at New Brighton and subsequently crossed to Liverpool in the ferry boat Thistle, which, as has been already stated, was the means of conveying to New Brighton intelligence of the stranding of their vessel..