Maritime record MWX1880 - Constance

English cargo vessel, 22/11/1687. 1687 wreck of an English cargo vessel which foundered in the Weymouth Roads with a cargo of tobacco, on her voyage from Bristol bound for Rotterdam. Constructed of wood and registered to Lymington, she was a sailing vessel.

Foundered / Total Loss. (3)

Additional sources cited in United Kingdom Shipwreck Index: PRO. Chancery Lane E190. 882/7 Port Book.

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> 1975, Dorset magazine : the county magazine vol. 48 (Article in serial). SWX4573.

<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, Shipwreck 343 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

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

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900442 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 12 2022 6:50PM