Maritime record MWX1517 - William and Ann 1836

`Coastguard John Keogh led a crew to save 4 or 5 men on board the wreck, but lost his own life in a further attempt to save the vessels stores. (1)(4) Crew: 4 or 5 Crew Lost: 1 Date of Loss Qualifier: A

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> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast, p18 (Monograph). SWX1056.

<3> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 50, p19 (Article in serial). SWX4560.

<4> 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.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 580 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1030316 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 21 2023 1:51PM