Maritime record LWT 666 - Wreck of the Marys

ENGLISH BRIG, 1853
Status: Casualty

`On the first launch of the VICTORIA lifeboat from Lowestoft,
she went to the aid of this brig which drove ashore on the Holm Sand
in a south-west gale. The tug IMPERIAL, out under Capt. Andrews, who
was the harbourmaster, picked up the lifeboat outside the harbour
and towed it throught tremendous seas and in the teeth of the gale,
down to the wreck, which in the meantime had driven right over the Holm Sand and now lay on the Newcome. Her crew of six men and a boy were saved, some by the Lowestoft boat, others by the Pakefield boat,
which arrived on the scene at the same time. The wreck later went to
pieces. Mr Peto donated 20 to the Lowestoft beachmen and Mr D H Fry, 10. A letter in the local paper on these liberal rewards hoped they would stimulate others to follow the example as the Society managing the lifeboats is at present so poor that it can give only 5 to those brave fellows on each occasion of going off.' (2)

`Lowestoffe, 6th Jan: The MARYS, Pearce, of and for Ipswich, from Sunderland, is ashore on the Holm Sand and expected to become a total wreck; crew brought ashore.' (4)

Built: 1841
Where Built: Ipswich
Owner: Cuckow & Co.
Master: G Pearce
Crew: 7

Date of Loss Qualifier: A

Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index:
SLL.p20; BOT Wk Rtn 1853 p5