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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.
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