Maritime record MWX1526 - Ann and Emily

`Four vessels drifted out of The Cobb. They were the SPECK, brigantine, and the PANDA , schooner, both belonging to Mr. Walker; The VULCAN, schooner, belonging to Mr. Fowler, and the ANN AND EMILY, schooner, owned by Messrs. Osborne and England. The ELIZABETH and ANN, belonging to Mr. Dixon, remains sunk in the Cobb with her stern knocked away. Some of the vessels were partly laden with coal, the greater part of which will be lost. The shores, which are strewn with the wreck, were visited by hundreds of people during the day. DCC. 10-JAN-1867

(1)(2) Owner: Osborn and England. Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: .

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> 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.

<3> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 698 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<4> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 9 (Monograph). SDO16406.

Ann & Emily (8/1/1867) - Schooner - Cargo: Coal. The Cobb @ Lyme Regis. See Lyme Coal Boat Disaster. Ref. Larn: & Dorset County Chronical: 10/1/1867 & Times: Thursday, January 10, 1867, Issue 25704 - Letter to the Editor: "Report on the extreme Gales at Lyme Regis: The Spec, Ann and Emily, Panda and the Vulcan were driven from the Cobb and wrecked on the beach." Detailed report and some critism of the Lifeboat Station. More information available.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1030326 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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