Maritime record MWX1543 - Union 1817

Stranded/Total Loss (1) Two other vessels were reported lost at Bridport and Charmouth respectively, `during the gale on Sunday night. (3) Date of Loss Qualifier: A

Stranded/Total Loss (1)

Two other vessels were reported lost at Bridport and Charmouth respectively, `during the gale on Sunday night'. (3)

`Lyme, Jan. 20. Yesterday it blew a fresh gale from SSE, and during the night increased to a hurricane, which occasioned the highest tide ever known here…Soon after daylight…at 8 o'clock all the walls (in front of the town), breakwaters, and about 300 feet of the centre part of the harbour gave way, when the stone cutting the cables of the vessels, the following were driven ashore and totally lost, viz. VOLANTE, and the MARY, of Lyme; UNION, of Exeter…' (4)

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, 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.

<2> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 50, p18 (Article in serial). SWX4560.

<3> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 24-JAN-1817, No.5146 (Serial). SWX8434.

<4> 1817, Durham County Advertiser, 25-JAN-1817, No.125 (Serial). SDO14749.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1231499 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 529 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

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