Maritime record MWX1559 - Susannah

`The SUSANNAH, Urick, from Waterford to Chichester, is stranded near Bridport. Only a small part of her cargo saved. (2) Source (2) gives the vessels name as SUSANNAH, (1) and (3) as SUSANNA. Master: Urick Date of Loss Qualifier: R

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, 29-MAY-1795, No.2720 (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 455 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> Scott, G, 2006, West Bay, Dorset. Undesignated Site Assessment, Final Report, 22 (Unpublished document). SDO15144.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900567 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 22 2024 1:46PM