Maritime record MWX1623 - Unidentified 1701 English Cargo Vessel

`15 tons of logwood from this English ship lost near Portland with all the men in the late storm ... goods thrown ashore at Weymouth. (1-3) Crew Lost: All Date of Loss Qualifier: R

Port of departure given as 'Bay of Campeachy" the name then given to a part of Mexico notable for the export of timber.

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> 1975, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 48, p13 (Article in serial). SWX4573.

<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> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900446 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 13 2024 4:14PM