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The Wilson was a schooner built at Annan in 1866. She was owned in Whitehaven seven years later when she was lost off the Irish coast.
On the 31st January 1873 the Wilson was caught in an easterly gale and was driven onto the North Bull at Drogheda. The Drogheda No.1 lifeboat was sent out under the command of Captain D. Robertson, assistant inspector of lifeboats, who was visiting the area. All five of the schooner's crew were saved, and Capt.Robertson received a commendation from the Lifeboat Institution.
The following day the easterly gale accounted for another Whitehaven
vessel, the John Scott.
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