Maritime record MDO47918 - Cargo vessel 1362

1362 wreck of cargo vessel which stranded because of a storm near Bridport on her passage from Bordeaux to Southampton. Laden with wine and other goods, she was a wooden sailing vessel. Status: Casualty

'1362. June 28. Westminster. Commission of oyer and terminer to John Moubray, Edmund de Chelreye, Robert de Hadham and William Payn, on complaint by James Walbron that, whereas a ship of his laden at Bordeaux with wines and other goods and merchandise on its way to Southampton was driven ashore by Briddeport, co. Dorset, by a storm, and the wine, goods and merchandise cast ashore, and the men of the ship nearly all escaped to land alive, some evildoers carried away the said cargo.' (1)

Crew Lost: some (1)

Date of Loss Qualifier: Reporting date of loss

<1> Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward III, 1361-64, membrane 42d, Vol XII p 284 (Unpublished document). SDO20500.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1450166 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 3:46PM