Note 23 — THE WRECK OF THE JOHN AND AGNES SLOOP OF NEWCASTLE, AT TYNE SANDS, NEAR DUNBAR, ON THE NIGHT OF SATURDAY THE 9TH NOVEMBER, 1816.
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“In a storm on the 14th November, the Fox man-of-war, Captain Beaver, was cast away near Dunbar, and all on board perished.”—Scots Mag. 1746. The last time the ship was discovered was to the eastward of the May. It is probable that she struck on the rocks west from the castle, as most of the corpses were found there. The wreck afterwards drifted and moored in Tyne Sands, where part of the rigging has at times been seen by aged persons.