Maritime record MWX1595 - William Glen Anderson

`Boatguards in a galley saved eight crew from this barque which went ashore in a southerly gale. This earned a silver medal for Lieut. Parsons RN., chief officer of Bournebottom Coastguards, who coaxed the galley manned by four of his men. They also saved four out of five men from a lifeboat of Sir Percy Shelly's yacht, which had put out to help but been capsized in heavy seas. (1)(3)

The WILLIAM GLEN ANDERSON, a barque of 389 tons, built 1827. (4) [This vessel drops out of Lloyd's Register in 1850.]

Built: 1827 (4)
Where Built: Richebucto (4)
Master: N Prynn [1849] (4)
Crew: 8 (1)(3)
Owner: G Woolfe, London [1849] (4)

Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss

Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: 100 Years of Lifesaving at Sea Poole RNLI p14

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> Farr, Grahame, 1971, Wreck and rescue on the Dorset coast, p115 (Monograph). SWX1056.

<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> Various, Lloyds register of British and foreign shipping, 1849, No.225(W) (Article in serial). SWX4603.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 633 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900997 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Apr 4 2024 2:31PM