Maritime record MWX1628 - Joseph and Abraham

`The JOSEPH AND ABRAHAM, Babb, from Tenby, is ashore near Portland. (2) Total Loss (3) Source (3) gives both reported date of loss and date of Lloyds List reference as 15-JAN-1757. Master: Babb 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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 18-JAN-1757, No.2195 (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 379 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900488 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 16 2024 12:07PM