Voyage Record Card has arrival off Tollesbury from Cuxhaven 27 October 1928. She passed Beachy Head 30 Dec 1928, arrived Newport 1 Jan 1929..

Mid Essex WSS - Lloyds List: arrived 27 Oct 1928 sailed 30 Dec 1928

Essex Newsman 5 Jan 1929.
Tollesbury Tragedy. Christmas Night boat fatality.
Inquest on Jack Price, ship's carpenter, South Wick, Sunderland, whose body was washed up near the pier on Friday morning. Deceased was one of a party of four seamen who left their boat off Tollesbury to spend Christmas evening in Tollesbury. About 1pm they started to row back to their boat, anchored half a mile out, but neither the men nor the dinghey in which they were rowing were heard of or seen again. The sea was rough, with a flood tide and there was a lot of wind.
Also deceased George Cole of Bootle and Charles Cooper, Plaistow. The body of Fredk. Geo. Dore of Reading is still missing. Later reports said Cooper and Dore were from the MARCONI.
Western Mail of 03 Jan 1929 reported THORPE GRANGE arrived Newport (Mon) 01-01-29 from Maldon
The Scotsman of 14 Jan 1929 reported THORPE GRANGE sailed Newport (Mon) 12-01-29 for Patagonia