Maritime record MWX1634 - Betsey 1774

Foundered/Total Loss (4) `The BETSEY, Popham, from Sunderland to Dartmouth, foundered near Portland the 5th inst. The crew saved.' (3) Source (4) gives date of loss as 25-JAN-1774, which is the reporting date. Master: Popham.

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> Newcastle Courant, 05-FEB-1774, No.5080 (Serial). SDO20502.

<3> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 25-JAN-1774, No.504 (Serial). SWX8434.

<4> 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.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 412 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 13 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900521 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 19 2024 3:20PM