Maritime record MWX1622 - Unidentified 1667

`Feb. 6, Weymouth: A small vessel hired at Dover to carry passengers to Plymouth, was obliged to run on the rocks SE of Portland to avoid a French sloop; the crew were saved, but the vessel all staved to pieces. (1)(2)(3) Date of Loss Qualifier: R

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> 1666-7, Calendar of State Papers Domestic 1666-7, Charles II. (Vol 191), p499 (Bibliographic reference). SWX4905.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900428 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 13 2024 3:49PM