Maritime record MWX1856 - Ocean Bride

Built: 1858 Crew: 4 Crew Lost: 1 Master: Anthony Michael Date of Loss Qualifier: A `Struck on Chesil Beach...and has become a total wreck. Had been heading for Portsmouth harbour due to choked pumps...the starboard side stove and the whole of the cargo washed out and lost. The rigging, sails, and anchors, chains etc, have been saved. (2) The pumps choked off Start Point in wind conditions SW force 7. The crewman lost was John Flynn. Vessel valued at £380; cargo valued at £750. (3) 14-JAN, OCEAN BRIDE stranded and became a total loss on Chesil Beach in SW 7.(4)(5)

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

<2> Various, Dorset County Chronicle, 25-JAN-1866 (Serial). SWX6464.

<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> Board of Trade, 1867, Parliamentary papers 1867, Board of Trade Casualty Returns 1866, p30(408) (Monograph). SWX5051.

<5> Board of Trade, 1867, Parliamentary papers 1867, Board of Trade Casualty Returns 1866., p37 (415) (Monograph). SWX5814.

<6> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 679 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<7> Cumming, E, 2014, The Portland Shipwreck and Maritime Incident Directory (Monograph). SDO14012.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 901090 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

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