Maritime record MWX1936 - Squirrel 1748

Wreck is shown on Isaac Taylor's map of Dorset, 1765. (1)(3) Date of Loss Qualifier: R. Taylor records; The Squirrel a Tobacco ship stranded in 1748 most of the people drowned. (4)

Possibly identical with a similar vessel lost at a similar time in the same area ,the Squirrel (MWX1977)

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, p15 (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> Taylor, Isaac, 1765, Map of Dorsetshire (Cartographic materials). SWX7290.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 357 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900462 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 19 2023 4:09PM