Margaret

Official Number 45677

The schooner Margaret was launched in November 1862 at Canal Foot, Ulverston. Alan Lockett (see Source 1) quoted from the local press:

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

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	115				2

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. Research by Trevor Morgan
3. Report of loss in "The Shipwreck Index of the British Isles Vol.5" by  Richard and Bridget Larn.