Cygnet

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The Cygnet, a schooner belonging to Workington, was bound from Port Dinorwic for her home port with a cargo of slates when she was wrecked near the Maryport lifeboat station on the 4th January 1872. Her crew of three were rescued by the Maryport lifeboat.
 

Sources :

1. Wreck reported in "The Times" newspaper, Friday, 5th January, 1872, page 9.
2. Rescue reported in "The Times" newspaper, Saturday, 3rd February, 1872, page 6.
3. There were no vessels named Cygnet built at Workington or Harrington according to "Shipbuilding at Workington - a Checklist" by Harry Fancy, pub. Whitehaven Museum (1985).