John; So far only able to find the following which is not pertinent to the wreck,...: (Another note is Donald G. Shomette's Book "Shipwreaks on the Chesapeake" has her sinking on the 3rd of April.If the following is the same vessel: May 7, 1881 The schooner Mary S. Ewing, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, bound from Newburgh, New York, to Cape May, New Jersey, with a cargo of flagstones and a crew of four men and one passenger, stranded on the south bar of Cold Spring Inlet, two and a quarter miles from Station No. 39, Fo'urth District, (New Jersey.) She was discovered at 3 P. M. by a surfmau of the station, who mustered a crew (the station not being manned at this season and went to the rescue in the surf- boat, taking a five-inch hawser belonging to the station. With the aid of this they worked the vessel off, and saved her and her cargo from total loss.
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