Maritime record MWX1610 - Jason (Aedanach)

Ex-AEDANACH. (2) Year Built: 1878 Builder: H Murray and Co. Where Built: Port Glasgow Engine HP: 98 Boilers: 1 Propulsion: Screw driven, 4 cylinder triple expansion engine Owner: Stone and Coombs Master: R J Evans Construction: Q.deck 79ft.;b.deck 37ft.;f.castle 30ft.;1 x deck; well deck. Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: LR.1907-8 No.140(J) Weymouth Library photo L910 4 JA 4

On the morning of the 13th March 1911 the small steamship Jason ran onto rocks off Portland. The Weymouth lifeboat Friern Watch stood by as three steam tugs managed to get lines on board and eventually managed to tow her off. (3)

gross tonnage

Salvaged

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

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 892060 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Sep 18 2023 4:49PM