Maritime record MWX1659 - Delight 1840

`...The boat and crew were brought into the port [Weymouth] by the Petrel, the Revenue cruiser. (2)
Foundered / Total Loss (3) Master: Butcher

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> Various, Dorset County Chronicle, p4. 29-OCT-1840 (Serial). SWX6464.

<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> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 26 (Monograph). SDO16406.

‘Wexford Independent, Wednesday, 4/11/1840 – “Last Saturday the Delight, Captain Boutcher, of Waterford, from Poole, for Liverpool, laden with pipe clay, sprung a leak, and went down six leagues to the south of Portland Race. The crew were picked up by the Peterel, Revenue Cruiser and landed at Weymouth.’

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900961 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 15 2023 9:19AM