Maritime record MWX1532 - Speck

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 call the vessel SPEAK and suggest it was a schooner

(2) Built: 1840 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: DCC 10.01.1867(Tu)

<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, Shipwreck 691 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1143264 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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