Maritime record MWX1660 - John 1843

Abandoned off Portland after being in contact. (2) Foundered / Total Loss (3) Date of Loss Qualifier: A

Port of registration and port of origin is given as Shields, uncertain if North or South Shields

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> Board of Trade, 1843, Parliamentary papers 1843, Board of Trade Select Committee on Shipwreck., p46 (Monograph). SWX5024.

<3> Board of Trade, 1843, Parliamentary papers 1843, Board of Trade Select Committee on Shipwreck, p54 (Monograph). SWX5025.

<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, Shipwreck 613 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900973 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 20 2024 6:48AM