Maritime record MWX1578 - Reine

Stranded/Total Loss (2) `On the 30th ult. [30-APR-1751] sailed from Bridport the REINE, Gabriel John le Braze master, from Morlaix for Dunkirk, who on the 25th of March last was drove ashore near Bridport, and had like to have been lost. (3)

Source (2) reconstructs the date as 1750 (Old Style) and quotes an incorrect reference from LL.31.03.1750 (Old Style), No.1604, in which there is no mention of this vessel. Master: Gabriel John [Jean?] le Braze 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, 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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 03-MAY-1751, No.1610 (Serial). SWX8434.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 366 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> Scott, G, 2006, West Bay, Dorset. Undesignated Site Assessment, Final Report, 21 (Unpublished document). SDO15144.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1145454 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 23 2024 4:30PM