Margaret

Official Number
45677

The schooner Margaret was launched in November 1862 at Canal Foot, Ulverston. Alan Lockett quoted from the local press:

" A beautiful schooner was launched from the shipbuilding yard of Mr.E.J.Schollick on Monday last of about 100 tons register. She will be commanded by Captain Dickinson, late of the John."

The Margaret was named after the wife of Schollick's foreman, John Wilson.

Owned originally in Ulverston, and from 1871 by the Duddon Shipping Association, the Margaret was wrecked on the 20th April 1878. She was travelling from Britonferry to Belfast with a coal cargo, under the command of Capt.W.Hughes and with a crew of four. She was stranded on the rocks of Skokholm Island, Pembrokeshire, swept there in calm conditions after being caught on the tide.
 
Name
Year Built
Gross Tons
Length (feet)
Breadth (feet)
Depth (feet)
Masts
Figurehead
Stern
Lloyd's Classn.
Margaret
1862
124
 83.0
   22.0
 11.5
2
 
 
 9 years A1.

Sources :

  1. "Ports & People of Morecambe Bay" by Alan Lockett, ISBN 0 903304 03 1 (1976): quoting from the "local press" 29th November 1862.
  2. Clayton's Register of Shipping 1865: Margaret, schooner, 125 tons, 9 years A1, built 1862, registered at Lancaster, owned and commanded by Capt.R.Dickinson, master mariner, of Barrow-in-Furness.
  3. Mercantile Navy List 1867: Margaret, registered at Lancaster, 125 tons, off.no.45677, signal letters VFJC, registered owner Thomas Rodick, of Rockferrry, Cheshire (NB. Another schooner named Margaret was also registered at Lancaster at the same time).
  4. Lloyd's Register of Shpping 1868-9: Margaret, schooner, 124 tons, belonging to Ulverston/Barrow, owner and commander Capt.R.Dickinson.
  5. Report of loss in "The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles Vol.5" by  Richard and Bridget Larn (citing BoT Wreck Returns)