Maritime record MWX1833 - Charming Molly 1754

Vessel lost in a position described as three miles W of Portland, Chesil Beach, PM on a Monday. `Mr Anthony Rivers, a young jeweller on passage in the ship, jumped out of the vessel, drowned, and was buried on the beach. A common sailor shared the same fate. (1)(2)

Master: Powell
Crew Lost: 1
Passengers Lost: 1

Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: Wyke Regis Burial Register.

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, 377 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<4> Cumming, E, 2014, The Portland Shipwreck and Maritime Incident Directory (Monograph). SDO14012.

<5> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 21 (Monograph). SDO16406.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900486 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 3 2024 11:56AM