Maritime record MWX1947 - Concord

`The THREE RELATIONS, Keir, from Cork to Norway; the CONCORD, -, and the RODNEY, Hawetn, from Topsham to Sunderland, in ballast, are lost on Portland Beach; crew saved. (2) ...also two brigantines belonging to Sunderland called the CONCORD and RODNEY, bound from Topsham to Sunderland in ballast. The crews are all saved, but it is feared the ships will be lost. (4)

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> 1745 onwards, Lloyds list, 27-SEP-1799, No.4002 (Serial). SWX8434.

<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> Sherbourne Mercury, p4, 30-SEP-1799 (Serial). SWX4820.

<5> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 483 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<6> Cumming, E, The Dorset shipwreck and maritime incident directory, 23 (Monograph). SDO16406.

Record last edited

Sep 6 2024 4:37PM