Maritime record MWX1582 - Trois Amis

1817 wreck of French craft which stranded near Bridport on her passage to Rouen. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel, and may possibly be identifiable with a French chasse-maree which was said to have been lost at Charmouth in the same gale.

`A violent gale of wind at about SSW, attended with a very high tide, was experienced at Plymouth, Falmouth, and Penzance, on Saturday night and Sunday morning. <2>

`The TROIS AMIS of Bordeaux, bound to Rouen, was totally lost near Bridport during the gale on Sunday night. Only a passenger saved. <3>

Definitely identified as a chasse-maree in source <5>.

Crew Lost: all 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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 24-JAN-1817, No.5146 (Serial). SWX8434.

<3> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 50, p18 (Article in serial). SWX4560.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 527 (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 Undesignated Site Assessment, Final Report, 21 (Unpublished document).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, 1171314 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 15 2023 8:57AM