Maritime record MWX1515 - Eliza and Antonia

'The ELIZA AND ANTONIA, John de Baptista, from the Canaries for Hamburg, is lost near Lyme, and but little of the cargo saved.' (2)(3)

Source (3 & 4) gives the name of the vessel as ELIZA AND ANTONIO.

Master: John de Baptista (2); John Baptista (3)

The building date for this vessel is an estimate based on an average age at wrecking of twenty years. This average is derived from those vessels wrecked on the Dorset coast whose age at wrecking is known.

<1> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<2> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 14-NOV-1758, No.2384 (Serial). SWX8434.

<3> Larn, R, and Larn, B, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 6, Dorset (AJ) Vol 1 (Monograph). SWX4541.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 385 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1030313 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 1 2024 7:47PM