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Margaret | 5252 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominal Guns | 4 | ||
| Nationality | Great Britain | ||
| Operator | Royal Navy | ||
| Launched | 1785 | ||
| How acquired | Built by Contract | ||
| Shipyard | Unknown | ||
| Category | Hired Vessel | ||
| Ship Type | Tender | ||
| Sailing Rig | Brig | ||
| Wrecked | 24.11.1798 | ||
Letter received by the Admiral, from a Gentleman residing near Dunsanaghy
I feel much concern at being obliged to give you the melancholy information of the loss of the Margaret tender, with all her crew (25 in number) on this coast, in the late violent storm. On Saturday night last, in a dreadful gale of wind at N. W. about nine o'clock, a gun was heard, supposed to be from a vessel in distress, and soon after a brig was driven upon a tidge that runs out from the main land to the Island of Ennisboffin, and almost instantly went to pieces, as I believe this place is one of the most dangerous for a vessel to touch upon in any weather. The wreck was so complete, that when I got to the shore the next morning, the stern of the vessel was lying a considerable distance from the wreck of the ship, and the whole altogether broke into different parts. From a piece of paper taken up a long the shore, only can it be known what the vessel was. One paper mentions the Margaret tender, John Pollexfen, Lt and Commander; Colin Ross, Master and Commander; it seems to be a return of the men on board.
The bodies of nine men and one woman have been driven on shore, and buried here; scarce any thing from the wreck has been saved.