Maritime record MWX1665 - Dart

`The Honfleur fishing smack VICTOIRE DESIREE went through the Portland Race in order to save the three man crew of the DART, which had foundered in squally weather. Pierre Picard received a silver medal from the National Lifeboat Institution. The DART had capsized on a Sunday morning in heavy weather when her ballast shifted. (1)(2) 09-MAR-1857, DART a Dandy of 29 tons and a crew of three and two passengers foundered with the loss of 2 in a NW 8 in Portland Race. (3)

Master: Gush
Crew: 3
Passengers: 2
Lives Lost: 2

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> 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.

<3> 1864, Parliamentary papers 1864, Harbour of Refuge, p116(558) (Monograph). SWX4606.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 652 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 25 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 901072 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 21 2024 1:13PM