Maritime record MWX1783 - Lottery

`Weymouth January 18th: This evening was stranded on the beach about a mile from this harbour the sloop LOTTERY, of and from Portsmouth, burthen about 30 tons, Thomas Willis master, bound to Plymouth with passengers. Passengers and crew are saved. (4) Master: Thomas Willis Date of Loss Qualifier: A

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.

Net tonnage

<1> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<2> 1976, Dorset magazine : the county magazine 58, p25 (Article in serial). SWX5343.

<3> 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.

<4> Sherbourne Mercury, p4, 24-JAN-1791 (Serial). SWX4820.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 444 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900553 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 19 2024 4:23PM