Loss

Date 24 January 1869

Event ID 571124

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/571124

Dunbar, 25th Jan. The MARGARET (schr.), of Stornoway, Evans, from West Hartlepool to Tayport, with railway chairs, is on shore at Goatness, fills with the tide, and is likely to become a wreck: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 17,093, London, Tuesday, January 26 1869.

Dunbar, 26th Jan. About two tons of cargo have been saved from the MARGARET, Evans, from West Hartlepool to Tayport, which got ashore, yesterday, at Goatness.

Source: LL, No. 17,097, London, Saturday, January 30 1869.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11581).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of railway chairs: date of loss cited as 24 January 1869). Margaret: this vessel stranded at Goatness, expected wreck. Capt. Evans.

Registration: Berwick. Built: 1822. Rebuilt: 1856. 37 grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 59.25 W2 26.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.