Maritime record MWX1850 - Saggitario

1840 wreck of Austrian polacca or polacre which stranded on Chesil Beach while bound from Antwerp to Istanbul. Laden with sugar, textiles and logwood, she was a wooden sailing vessel.

Stranded / Total Loss (2) Master: Zaffron Crew: 13 Date of Loss Qualifier: A Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: Shipwreck poster, Weymouth Library, Ref.L910.4.SA.3

NB: At this period the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a seaboard encompassing parts of Italy and the Balkan countries. The name SAGITTARIO and the name of the master suggest that the vessel belonged to an Italian port.

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

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900959 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 19 2023 3:16PM