Maritime record MWX1560 - Alioth

Having discharged her cargo the master, impatient to leave, sailed out of Bridport Harbour against the advice of the local pilots and was driven up on the east beach. The Coastguard rocket apparatus enabled the crew to be rescued but the vessel was a total loss in the heavy swell. (1)(2)

13-MAR-1923 The master of the Swedish ketch ALLIOTH, impatient to leave after discharging her timber cargo, sailed out against the advice of the pilots and was driven on to the east beach. The Coastguard rocket apparatus was used to establish a rope communication by which the crew came ashore.(3)

Additional sources: Weymouth Library (photo) L910 4 AL 1

<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> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast, p22 (Monograph). SWX1056.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 166 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> Le Pard, G F, 2005, Shipwrecks of the Dorset Coast (Monograph). SDO9637.

<6> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 6 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900883 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 25 2024 12:40PM