Maritime record MWX1562 - Le Jean Bart (Jaubert)

The passenger was a Spanish boy, aged 13 years. Among the dead in the crew was a Frederic Gilbert. Having failed to run the vessel on the beach, she finished up driven under 200-foot high cliffs, where she was pounded by heavy seas. Ropes were lowered from the clifftop and five men hauled to safety before the vessel went to pieces, drowning the rest of her crew. (1)(3) Sources (1)(3) give the name of the vessel as JEAN BART. `The JAUBERT, from Algiers to Havre, was totally wrecked near this port yesterday afternoon; 5 of the crew saved, 3 drowned. (4) Crew: 8 Passengers: 1 Lives Lost: 4 (1)(3); 3 (4) Date of Loss Qualifier: R

Interpreted as a French merchant sailing vessel (smack). (5)

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> 1975, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 49, p23 (Article in serial). SWX4562.

<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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 01-DEC-1838, No.7719 (Serial). SWX8434.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 590 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> Scott, G, 2006, West Bay, Dorset. Undesignated Site Assessment, Final Report, 24 (Unpublished document). SDO15144.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900948 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 20 2024 6:56AM