Vessel drove ashore on the Varne in wind conditions WSW force 7, but managed to reach Margate. Two weeks later, on 24th November, in a severe SSE force 8 gale which then changed direction to ENE force 9, she drove ashore and broke up, demolishing the refreshment room on the pier and some 200 feet of the pier itself, causing 5,000 of damage. Year Built: 1856 Owner: R S Allen, Newcastle Master: T Jones Crew: 18 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index. Board of Trade Wreck Return 1877 Appx.Pts.I-IV p90; Lloyds Register 1875-6 No.494(C) p188; KCT.(and Ramsgate and Margate Obs.) 26.11.1877(R) (1).

<1> United Kingdom shipwreck index, Page Nos. N/a (Bibliographic reference). SKE6340.

<2> Larn, Richard and Bridget, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 2 : Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Sussex, Kent (Mainland), Kent (Downs), Goodwin Sands, Thames (Bibliographic reference). SKE31910.