Maritime record MWX1771 - Anworth

29-OCT-1993 Cargo possibly cement. (1)

14-SEP-1990 Uncharted wreck dived recently approximately 4 miles west of Portland Bill. Small steamship about 150 feet long. Riveted construction. Little sign of cargo other than some bagged cement, or similar. Appears to have been sunk by gunfire. Wreck identified by the name on the bell, may have been a former name, in position 50 13.58N 002 33.70W with a cargo of cement. She sits 8m upright on a sandy bottom in 38m, commonly known as the lobster wreck.(2) A toilet bowl recovered from this wreck 8 miles south west of Portland (Droit A/840). (3)

Date ? [ID from Bell, no date for wreck] - (Dive Dorset: 103 p:94: GPS; 50 31 58N; 02 33.70W) & Clarke: May have had a new name? (5).

<1> United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, 1992, Hydrographic Office wreck index (Index). SWX4837.

<2> Hinchcliffe, J and V, 1999, Dive Dorset: a diver guide (3rd Edition), Wreck 103, p94 (Monograph). SWX1.

<3> Receiver of Wreck, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck A/0840 (Unpublished document). SWX338.

<4> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 1167 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 9 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 832484 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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