Maritime record MWX1679 - Unidentified 1876

`...on Sunday, a violent storm raged over the coastline. It commenced in the night and came from the SSW veering SW. The coastguard assembled with their apparatus when the wind went to the west. The Tophill coastguard reported a vessel trying to beat down channel against the wind and that she was labouring heavily. When clear of the Bill and the Race at 2.30pm, she was seen to settle down and her crew climb into the rigging. No boats could be lowered in such weather, and the vessel was seen to founder. (1) Crew Lost: All Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: DCE 07 03 1876(R) (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> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 731 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 901131 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 28 2024 5:09PM