Maritime record MWX1633 - Sarah and Esther

1773 wreck of craft, possibly British, which foundered off the Bill of Portland on her passage from Alicante to London. Constructed of wood, she was a sailing vessel, and may have been lost in company with the POLLY AND NANCY.

`The SARAH AND ESTHER, Williams, from Alicant to London, is entirely lost off Portland, the people saved. (2) Master: Williams 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, 05-MAR-1773, No.412 (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 410 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900518 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 19 2024 3:53PM