 Another group of eight ships attacked Vulcano island, but was blown off-course in a storm towards the Straits of Messina.The Syracusan navy, then at Messina, managed to capture three of the ships, which surrendered without resistance.Learning from the captured crew that a Carthaginian fleet was to attack Lilybaeum, Hiero II, who was at Messina awaiting the arrival of Sempronius, warned the Roman praetor Marcus Aemilius Lepidus at Lilybaeum about the impending raid.