Maritime record MWX1756 - Unidentified 1803 French Cargo Vessel

8 January, unknown French ship. On this day near Portland the ship ELIZA, of London, Captain Donaldson, from Rotterdam for Bristol, picked up eight hogsheads of French wine floating on the sea and passed through upwards of a hundred more of the same sort, from which it was conjectured that some French ship must have been lost near that island. The crew also took up the figurehead of a ship with netting attached. Date of Loss Qualifier: R Additional sources cited in Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras: Naval Chronicle, Vol.9 p77 (1)

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> Grocott, T, 1997, Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras, p137 (Monograph). SWX4795.

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1339395 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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