Maritime record MWX1635 - Compte De Maurepas

Sunk following battle with HM man o war SOUTHAMPTON, 5th rate, 32 guns. (3) `The COMPTE DE MAUREPAS, a French privateer of 12 guns and 80 men, was sunk off Portland by the SOUTHAMPTON man o war; the crew saved. (2) Source (2) states that the vessel was a privateer, which an account of her capture of a British vessel earlier that summer may bear out (4); sources (1) and (3) state that she was a man of war. This vessel was reported lost on 01-AUG-1780

Armament: 12 cannon
Crew: 80

This vessel is only known from documentary evidence. The location given is only approximate.

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, 01-AUG-1780, No.1185 (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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 23-JUN-1780, No.1174 (Serial). SWX8434.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 421 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 23 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900532 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 19 2024 3:23PM