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Caroline

HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The three-masted schooner Caroline, of Padstow, bound from Hayle for Cardiff with sand, while being towed out of the harbour, in a j moderate W.N.W. breeze and a very heavy ground sea, on the 23rd January, stranded on the eastern side of the bar.

She showed signals of distress, and in response to them the Life-boat E. F.

Harrison was promptly launched, and at 10.10 A.M. was on her way to the vessel.

The crew of six men and a pilot were rescued by the Life-boat, the schooner becoming a total wreck..