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Margaret

THORPE.—On the 10th November, the schooner Margaret, of Goole, riding off Thorpeness during a S.S.W. gale, was observed to drag her anchor. She slipped her cable, but her rudder chains broke, she became unmanageable, and drove on to the rocks. The Thorpe Life-boat Ipswich went to her assistance, and succeeded in rescuing her crew of 5 men, and landed them at Sizewell. The vessel became a total wreck..