Maritime record MWX1627 - Elizabeth and Johanna

The ELIZABETH AND JOHANNA, Bouset, from Currasoa [sic] for Amsterdam, with tobacco, cocoa, coffee etc., came on shore on the 6th instant on the Island of Portland. The vessel is beat to pieces and most of the cargo lost. (2)(3)

Master: Bouset (2); Bousset (1)(3)

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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 10-JUL-1752, No.1736 (Serial). SWX8434.

<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> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 368 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900473 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 12 2023 1:49PM