Margaret Haney

Rick James reports that "After loading lumber in Vancouver, the ship left on its maiden voyage to Calcutta, India, on 1 May 1917. Eighty- five days out, it ran onto a mud flat seven miles outside of the port of Bombay. Once clear and steaming again at full speed, it ran up on a rock, tearing away part of its keel while damaging the rudder. The lumber schooner was repaired in Bombay and then chartered to trade on the Indian coast. The Victoria Daily Times, which reported this news on 5 December that same year, noted that it was improbable that Margaret Haney would return to British Columbia until after the war. Two years later, in December 1919, the vessel was in Mediterranean waters and, throughout the spring and summer of 1920, was likely trading in European waters. Finally, on 23 July 1920, a Lloyd’s List entry identifies it as “on fire 5916228”—59 degrees 16 minutes North, 22 degrees 8 East places the schooner in the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Gulf of Finland. The final entry for the vessel, 28 July, reported that Margaret Haney was towed into the port of Hanko, Finland: “Vessel burnt totally destroyed.” "