Maritime record MWX1849 - Commodore 1839

`At the court of Petty Sessions, Samuel Wingate of Portland, was fined £20 for stealing part of the cargo of this vessel, and in default of payment was committed to six months hard labour in the house of correction. (1)(3)

Master: William Bence
Crew: 7

Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: DCC 19 01 1839(Thu)(R).

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> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 593 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

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

<5> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 23 (Monograph). SDO16406.

‘…William Flann, received a National Lifeboat Institute award for his part in the rescue of the crew. Ref. Dorset County Chronical: 19/1/1839 & Dorset Magazine: 1975 No 49 p:25.’

Record last edited

Jan 23 2020 12:22PM