Maritime record MWX1789 - Caroline 1800

Stranded/Total Loss (3) `The CAROLINE (cartel), of Gosport, is on shore near Weymouth, and full of water. (2) Cartel: a written agreement as to the exchange or ransom of prisoners...a ship employed in such exchange (1769)...[OED].

This vessel is only known from documentary evidence. The location given is only approximate.

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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 03-JAN-1800, No.4012 (Serial). SWX8434.

<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> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, 490 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<5> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 18 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900768 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2022 6:40PM