Maritime record MWX1885 - Friends 1786

Extract of a letter from Weymouth, January 8th: `...vessel entirely lost. (2) Stranded/Total Loss (3) `The FRIENDS, Collingwood, from Seville to London, is totally lost off Portland. (4) [NB: Source (3) expresses the voyage as in the opposite direction.] Master: Thomas Collingwood Date of Loss Qualifier: A

`Weymouth, Jan. 8. On the 4th instant was driven on shore, near the Beel of Portland, a sloop, burthen about 100 tons, called the FRIENDS of Pool, Thomas Collingwood, master, from London to Seville in ballast. The crew (with great difficulty) were all saved; the vessel is entirely lost.' (5)

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> Sherbourne Mercury, 16-JAN-1786 (Serial). SWX4820.

<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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 10-JAN-1786, No.1741 (Serial). SWX8434.

<5> Newcastle Courant, 21-JAN-1786, No.5702 (Serial). SDO20502.

<6> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 430 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900539 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 20 2024 6:53AM